Re: Favorite Font -- Unicode Test

Farley Flud wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 08:57:28 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
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Terminus handles all the above including this:
 
<snip>

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I don't know.
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Terminus is a "funny" font.  It is distributed both as the
traditional X PCF (Portable Compiled Format) and as the
OTB (Open Type Bitmap).
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In any case it is not TTF (True Type Font) or OTF (Open
Type Font).  It is an X bitmap font.

There is a Terminus TTF font, as well. There's 5 different terminus
font packages in Debian Sid.  I just installed them all, and see
this:

$ find  /usr/share/fonts/ -iname "*terminus*"
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/terminus
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/terminus/TerminusTTF-4.46.0.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/terminus
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/terminus/terminus-bold.otb
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/terminus/terminus-normal.otb
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/terminus/terminus-bold-oblique.otb
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/terminus/terminus-oblique.otb

Not sure which package installed the TTF version (the otb was the
only one installed until now).

Here: https://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/

I cannot open the OTB font in the uxterm (xterm unicode)
terminal but I can open the PCF font.
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What I get in displaying the Unicode test file is this:
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https://i.postimg.cc/9FCsGd5Y/terminus1.png
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The formatting is correct but the actual Unicode chars are
absent.
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It should look like this:
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https://i.postimg.cc/9f6nzTYT/terminus2.png
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Thus, unless I am doing something wrong, the Terminus font
seems quite substandard.

Fits my needs.

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