Re: [kbd] kbd: additions to the Unicode map for 12x22 fonts

Re: [kbd] kbd: additions to the Unicode map for 12x22 fonts

[Alexey Gladkov]

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

Re: [kbd] kbd: additions to the Unicode map for 12x22 fonts

[David Grayson]

Hello, Alexey.

Thanks for the response.  I was not aware of the mailing list or the
git repositories for the kbd package.

I only chose the 12x22 fonts because they are the size that I am
interested in using on my laptop.  I just saw a hole that affected me
and I wanted to fix it; that's all.  The unicode map for lat1-16.psfu
already has the entries for those unicode characters.

If you are open to it, I would be willing to examine the unicode maps
in a more systematic way to find more entries that should be added to
the 12x22 fonts.

--David


On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 3:56 AM, Alexey Gladkov
<gladkov.alexey@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Re: [kbd] kbd: additions to the Unicode map for 12x22 fonts

[Ken Moffat]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 09:14:31PM -0800, David Grayson wrote:
> 
> >>   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
> >>

 Just out of interest, what use-case did you find for the soft
hyphen, U+00AD ?  I discovered a week or two ago that it was not in
LatGrkCyr-12x22 : someone who posted to lkml had one in his name (it
appeared to be spurious), but apart from that I've never needed it.
It's now on my ToDo list, but so are a lot of other things.

 The others are already in that font.

ĸen
-- 
das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce

Re: [kbd] kbd: additions to the Unicode map for 12x22 fonts

[David Grayson]

Hello, Ken.  I just checked and the "man" utility uses the U+2010
dash, so I don't actually have a use case for any of the other dashes.
 I just noticed the soft hyphen in the unicode map of another font so
that's why I put it on that list.

--David


On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 09:14:31PM -0800, David Grayson wrote:
>>
>> >>   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
>> >>
>
>  Just out of interest, what use-case did you find for the soft
> hyphen, U+00AD ?  I discovered a week or two ago that it was not in
> LatGrkCyr-12x22 : someone who posted to lkml had one in his name (it
> appeared to be spurious), but apart from that I've never needed it.
> It's now on my ToDo list, but so are a lot of other things.
>
>  The others are already in that font.
>
> ĸen
> --
> das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce
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