On Friday 22 December 2006 19:40, A. Khattri wrote: > Does anyone know of a good all-round font to use for a unicode console? > Ideally, I want to be able to display mostly European languages (though, > if there is a font out there that can deal with Asian languages too, that > would be great ;-)
Terminus has all the characters I need: http://www.is-vn.bg/hamster/jimmy-en.html > Terminus Font - a clean fixed width font > source: terminus-font-4.20.tar.gz (198KB) > Terminus Font is designed for long (8 and more hours per day) work with > computers. Version 4.16 contains 690 characters, covering code pages > ISO8859-1/2/5/9/13/15/16, IBM-437/852/855/866, KOI8-R/U/E/F, > Windows-1250/1251/1252/1254/1257, Paratype-PT154/PT254, Bulgarian-MIK, > Macintosh-Ukrainian, Esperanto and many others (a total of about 110 > language sets). Also included are the IBM VGA, vt100 and xterm > pseudographic characters. The sizes present are 6x12, 8x14, 8x16, 10x20, > 12x24, 14x28 and 16x32. The styles are normal and bold (except for 6x12), > plus EGA/VGA-bold for 8x14 and 8x16. And it's available in portage: emerge -av media-fonts/terminus-font I've heard that the Microsoft Arial Unicode fonts have nearly all characters, but I don't know if they can be used in the console (probably not). -- /PA -- [email protected] mailing list
