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Claudio Matsuoka 3818e459fa Add Linux console font
A console font with braille and graphic block characters is needed to
run gotop directly on the Linux console. Contribute a 16x8 psf font
containing these characters.

Signed-off-by: Claudio Matsuoka <cmatsuoka@gmail.com>
2019-04-07 15:21:03 -03:00

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`Lat15-VGA16-braille.psf` is a Linux console font based on `Lat15-VGA16.psf`
with additional braille and graphic block characters suitable to run gotop
on the Linux console without a graphic environment. To use the braille font,
just run `setfont Lat15-VGA16-braille.psf`.
To rebase the braille and graphic block characters on a different 16x8
psf font, use the psf2txt and txt2psf from psftools[1]. In this case, make
sure the `Length:` entry in the file header is set to 512.
The original `Lat15-VGA16.psf` font file was obtained from the Ubuntu 18.04
console-setup-linux package[2]. Console fonts are public domain by nature[3].
[1] https://www.seasip.info/Unix/PSF/
[2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/amd64/console-setup-linux/1.178ubuntu2.7
[3] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/+source/console-setup/+copyright