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Newcons Unicode font stuff
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Latest commit 28550dc @emaste Remove non-existent characters from ISO 8859 fonts … 
These are 0x00-0x1F, 0x7F, and 0x80-0x9F, and were all blank in the
syscons fonts from which these were converted.
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maps Update code points 1-31 and 127
syscons-fonts Remove non-existent characters from ISO 8859 fonts
README.md Clarify tool origin and status
UTF-8-demo.txt Markus Kuhn's UTF-8 demo text
b16.hex Add b16.hex, CJK Unicode Font from Ring Server Open Laboratory
bdfimplode Add comment header referencing source of the files
bin2hex Allow height and width to be set with -x, -y
bold8x16.hex Add bold8x16 font
convert_syscons_fonts.sh Simple script to convert syscons fonts
fontinfo Add Cyrillic Supplement block name
fontpic.c Remove "Unifont" from the produced image title
gallant12x22.hex Add gallant12x22 font
hex2bdf Fix double-width characters in BDF conversion
hexdraw Add comment header referencing source of the files
hexmerge Uppercase the address to avoid duplicates
iso-8x16.hex Remove empty characters except U+0020 space
k16-1990.hex Add hexified version of k16-1990.bdf
utf_8_sample.txt Add left curly bracket to sample text
vt-default-bold.hex Remove PRIVATE USE AREA glyph U+F6BE
vt-default-normal.hex Remove PRIVATE USE AREA glyph U+F6BE

README.md

Newcons Unicode Font Stuff

This repository contains a bits and pieces related to fixed-size bitmap fonts. The goal is to produce fonts for the FreeBSD Newcons console update project.

Some tools tools here are obtained from or similar to ones from Roman Czyborra's GNU Unifont project. Roman came up with a simple ASCII hex format for bitmap font data which is perfectly suited to this application.

To try out one of the fonts in an xterm, use:

./hex2bdf vt-default-normal.hex > vt-default-normal.bdf
mkfontdir
xset fp+ $(pwd)
xset fp rehash
xterm -fn -freebsd-misc-medium-r-normal--16-160-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1

To produce a .bmp image showing each glyph in a .hex font:

cc -o fontpic fontpic.c
./fontpic < vt-default-normal.hex > vt-default-normal.bmp

Links

Fonts in this Repository

b16.hex

Source: b16.bdf in http://openlab.ring.gr.jp/efont/dist/unicode-bdf/efont-unicode-bdf-0.4.2.tar.bz2
License: 3-clause BSD license

bold8x16.hex

Source: http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/sys/dev/wsfont/bold8x16.h
License: Public domain

gallant12x22.hex

Source: http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/sys/dev/wsfont/gallant12x22.h
License: 3-caluse BSD license

iso-8x16.hex

Source: FreeBSD share/syscons/fonts/iso-8x16.fnt

k16-1990.hex

Source: http://web.mit.edu/ghudson/dev/nokrb/third/intlfonts/Japanese/k16-1990.bdf
License: public domain
Notable content: CJK Symbols and Punctuation, Hiragana, Katakana, CJK Unified Ideographs

vt-default-{normal,bold}.hex

Source: FreeBSD sys/dev/vt/font/vt_font_default.c
License: 2-clause BSD

syscons-fonts/

Source: FreeBSD /usr/share/syscons/fonts

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