Unicode VGA font

                                       What's it

   UNI-VGA is a Unicode VGA font for X11 and console. It is primarily intended to be
   the single source of fonts for console and for XDosEmu.

   The font (u_vga16) is distributed in BDF format, and can be used in X11 as is.
   For use on console, the bdf2psf.pl script is included, which performs
   (BDF+SFM)->PSF conversion, using .sfm file as encoding table.

   The package is distributed as gzipped tarball: [1]uni-vga.tgz.

   One of the aims while creating the font was its internal consistency. For
   example, accented glyphs shouldn't differ too much from unaccented ones, as it
   was in original IBM's VGA font. It also allowed to render Latin Extended
   Additional glyphs with two accents, which was impossible with IBM's accents'
   size.

   This font was designed to be usable both in 9-pixel (VGA text console) and in
   8-pixel (framebuffer console and X11) modes, with VGA 8th->9th pixel expansion
   accurately taken into account.

                                Unicode blocks' status

   I didn't try to achieve a full Unicode coverage, and made only most used blocks,
   which I'm familiar with.

   The blocks marked "Absent" are planned for inclusion in future releases.

   Status is given according to the Unicode 3.0.

                                Block                       Status
               0000-007F  Basic Latin                   Complete
               0080-00FF  Latin-1 Supplement            Complete
               0100-017F  Latin Extended-A              Complete
               0180-024F  Latin Extended-B              Complete
               0250-02AF  IPA Extensions                Complete
               02B0-02FF  Spacing Modifier Letters      Partial
               0300-036F  Combining Diacritical Marks   Partial
               0370-03FF  Greek                         Complete
               0400-050F  Cyrillic                      Complete
               0530-058F  Armenian                      Complete
               0590-05FF  Hebrew                        Partial
               0600-06FF  Arabic                        Complete
               10A0-10FF  Georgian                      Absent
               1E00-1EFF  Latin Extended Additional     Complete
               1F00-1FFF  Greek Extended                Absent
               2000-206F  General Punctuation           Complete
               2070-209F  Superscripts and Subscripts   Complete
               20A0-20CF  Currency Symbols              Complete
               2100-214F  Letterlike Symbols            Complete
               2150-218F  Number Forms                  Complete
               2190-21FF  Arrows                        Complete
               2200-22FF  Mathematical Operators        Complete
               2300-23FF  Miscellaneous Technical       Very few glyphs
               2500-257F  Box Drawing                   Complete
               2580-259F  Block Elements                Complete
               25A0-25FF  Geometric Shapes              Complete
               2600-26FF  Miscellaneous Symbols         Partial
               FB00-FB4F  Alphabetic Presentation Forms Very few glyphs
               FB50-FDFF  Arabic Presentation Forms-A   Complete
               FB70-FEFF  Arabic Presentation Forms-B   Complete

                            Copyright and acknowledgements

   The UNI-VGA font can be distributed and modified freely, according to the X
   license.

   The Basic Latin block was taken almost unchanged from DosEmu's vga.bdf. All the
   other blocks (except noted) were created mainly from scratch by me, Dmitry
   Bolkhovityanov.

   Letters in the Hebrew block were taken unchanged from a public domain hebrew
   console font.

   Glyphs in Arabic, Arabic Presentation Forms-A, Arabic Presentation Forms-B and
   U+262B Farsi symbol were kindly donated by Behdad Esfahbod.

   Thanks to Birger Langkjer for idea, to Mark Leisher for his wonderful XmBDFEd,
   and to many others for their support.
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    Copyright © 2001 by [2]Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov

References

   1. https://www.inp.nsk.su/~bolkhov/files/fonts/univga/uni-vga.tgz
   2. mailto:bolkhov@inp.nsk.su