[gentoo-user] Unicode fonts

[gentoo-user] Unicode fonts

[A. Khattri]

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 ;-)


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Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode fonts

[Peter Alfredsen]

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).
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