From: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com> To: David Grayson <davidegrayson@gmail.com>, kbd <kbd@lists.altlinux.org> Subject: Re: [kbd] kbd: additions to the Unicode map for 12x22 fonts Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:56:05 +0400 Message-ID: <50E02BD5.7050000@gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <CAJ127VxuSYgTr_zy7ei-a8SSw4O5NEopzZsXN76QxnQdMqiNWQ@mail.gmail.com> 29.12.2012 10:36, David Grayson wrote: > Hello, Alexey. > > My name is David. I found your email address in the README of the kbd > package at ftp://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/people/legion/kbd/ . I would > like to submit the following additions to the unimap for the sun12x22, > iso01-12x22, and iso02-12x22 fonts in the kbd package: Why only these specific fonts, but not other fonts? > # Different kinds of dashes and hyphens. > 0x2d U+00ad U+2010 U+2012 U+2013 > > # left/right single quotation mark > 0x60 U+2018 > 0x27 U+2019 > > > I noticed that when using any of these fonts in unicode mode, the > output from certain utilities was bad. The dashes that "man" uses to > wrap long lines were showing up as question marks inside a box. Also, > I was getting question marks inside boxes in place of the left/right > single quotation mark characters that "touch" outputs when you try to > touch a file in a directory that doesn't exist. Both of these issues > were fixed by adding the lines above to the unicode maps for these > fonts. > > The attached tar.gz file contains those additions in a file called > additions.uni, and it contains a little shell script you might want to > use to apply the patch to the existing fonts. > > With 1080p laptop displays being common these days, I think more and > more people are going to be using these 12x22 fonts and hoping that > they work properly. I am hoping that this fix can be pushed upstream > so that the next time I install Linux I don't have to regenerate the > console fonts myself, and so that others can benefit from the fix. > Are you the right person to email for that? Yes. There is also a mailing list: https://lists.altlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/kbd -- Rgrds, legion
next parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-30 11:56 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2012-12-30 11:56 ` Alexey Gladkov [this message] 2012-12-31 5:14 ` David Grayson 2012-12-31 16:16 ` Ken Moffat 2013-01-02 0:28 ` David Grayson
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