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Hello, Gentoo. |
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Recently, in another software project, somebody wants to replace the |
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ASCII quoting characters ", `, ' with curly unicode quoting characters. |
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I'm not in favour of this, but I'll probably be losing the argument. |
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So I need a font which can display these characters. Not an X-windows |
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GUI font, but a console font. There doesn't seem to be a suitable one |
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in /usr/share/consolefonts, so I'll probably have to modify an existing |
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one to make a new one. |
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Relevant to the discussion is the program "setfont". It's man page |
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describes in general terms what is contained in a font file like |
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/usr/share/consolefonts/lat1-16.psfu.gz, but not its exact format, nor |
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where to look to find this description. I haven't found anything useful |
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in the kernel Documentation tree, yet. |
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This documentation must surely exist somewhere. Does anybody here know |
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where? Additionally, there must be utilities for manipulating these |
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fonts. Does anybody here know what any of these utilities are called? |
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Many thanks for the help! |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |