Hello, again. On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 03:40:17PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo.
> Recently, in another software project, somebody wants to replace the > ASCII quoting characters ", `, ' with curly unicode quoting characters. > I'm not in favour of this, but I'll probably be losing the argument. > So I need a font which can display these characters. Not an X-windows > GUI font, but a console font. There doesn't seem to be a suitable one > in /usr/share/consolefonts, so I'll probably have to modify an existing > one to make a new one. > Relevant to the discussion is the program "setfont". It's man page > describes in general terms what is contained in a font file like > /usr/share/consolefonts/lat1-16.psfu.gz, but not its exact format, nor > where to look to find this description. I haven't found anything useful > in the kernel Documentation tree, yet. > This documentation must surely exist somewhere. Does anybody here know > where? Additionally, there must be utilities for manipulating these > fonts. Does anybody here know what any of these utilities are called? > Many thanks for the help! I've found media-gfx/psftools, which seems to do what I want. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
