> > To summarize: It seems that there is only a single platform left today > that by default uses a bitmap font for terminals with symmetric ` and > ' characters. This sort-of proves my point, doesn't it?
It gets even worse. See, whenever you edit source code, symmetric quote-pairs look like a directional pair of quotes facing the wrong way: [image: VirtualBox_Solaris 11.3_02_11_2020_20_09_16.png] Obviously, these letterforms made sense back when electromechanical typewriters were still a thing, and terminals didn't need emulation. But... not in 2020... :\ On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 19:42, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: > > > It's called Sun Gallant Demi > > Thanks. > > > (or simply "Gallant", as no other weights or variations of it > > exist). It's the default console font of SPARC workstations and > > SunOS/Solaris; > > OK. > > > OpenBSD used to use it, until they switched to a much blander > > console font <https://github.com/fcambus/spleen>. > > Not my taste... – additionally, ` and ' are no longer symmetric. > > > It's the only fixed-pitch serif typeface I've seen that pulls that > > look off naturally. > > To summarize: It seems that there is only a single platform left today > that by default uses a bitmap font for terminals with symmetric ` and > ' characters. This sort-of proves my point, doesn't it? > > > Werner >
