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Hello, again. |
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On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 03:40:17PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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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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I've found media-gfx/psftools, which seems to do what I want. |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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