@marjolica @Wen

You almost certainly won't have anything that truly does ISO/IEC 9995-3:2010. I had to write my own keyboard layout mechanism.

Interestingly, #ThumbKey (by @dessalines) makes em dash and ellipsis (and proper left/right quotes) first class citizens on its various 'writer' flavoured keyboard layouts.

So the world of mobile devices, outwith physical keyboards, actually has progressed to the point that people cannot complain (as I once did, long ago) that they don't have a dash key.

You could be worse off when it comes to these characters looking the same.

On the framebuffer console on my machines, I use an #Unscii derivative. In 8×16 there aren't enough horizontal pixels available to reasonably distinguish amongst minus, hyphen, figure dash, en dash, em dash, horizontal bar, and horizontal line.

https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/blob/trunk/src/punctuation.txt#L389

Mind you, GNU #Unifont is even worse for these, and only has 3 distinct glyphs. U+2014 and U+2015 are identical in Unifont.

#ComputerKeyboards

It doesn't look quite right on a 16:9 HDMI display with a 16 by 16 font. It lacks the pixellation and CRT blurring. And the cursor is wrong. So @ColinHaynes still has the better. (-:

But it's not bad for a non-X11 framebuffer Unicode-capable terminal emulator on a #RaspberryPi running #NetBSD with the #CommodorePET and BBC character sets.

#nosh #uservt #unscii

@ColinHaynes

From the looks of that, Unscii already has both of the glyph sets, and Markus Neeb's changes aren't adding any new glyphs (just putting some PET ones into the C64 set) so don't make a difference.

I'm already getting the text mode guttering by dint of the 7by7 font being rendered into 8by8 bitmaps. (-:

#PETSCII #CommodorePET #Unscii #nosh #uservt

This gave me an idea. Although the 8×8 fonts cannot be synthetically obliqued and boldfaced, because they are square, rectangular Ubuntu Mono can be.

So I can use #unscii PET for upright medium, unscii #BBCMicro for upright boldface, and #UbuntuMono for the oblique medium and boldface.

It works out fairly well.

#nosh #VirtualTerminals #vtfont

Interestingly, #Unifont 15 has an "_all" version with the same problem as #unscii "-full", and the additional problem that it has placeholder glyphs and is thus not suitable in any position other than final.

However, it does have a not "_all" alternative that breaks up its hex files by plane and doesn't have placeholders; and so doesn't hit #FreeBSD's vt font file limit if one does a 1-to-1 conversion.