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! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
