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@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ This is the Gallant font, as used by the Sun Microsystems SPARCstation console, extended with glyphs for many Unicode blocks. It is a raster -font with a 22x12 pixel character cell, descent 5 and ascent 17, -originally part of BSD. +font with a 22x12 pixel character cell, descent 5 and ascent 17. The starting point was the `gallant.hex` file as found on FreeBSD 14, which contained 502 glyphs at the time. This project currently provides @@ -189,11 +188,54 @@ which reads: */ ``` +In private conversation with the author, Jef said he guessed that the +gallant font was designed by someone at Sun Microsystems before it made +its way to Berkeley. ## Remarks -* Codepoints 0 through 31 differ from the Unicode standard. - They were left unmodified to not change their intended use on SPARC hardware. +Codepoints 0 through 31 contain glyphs of the VT100 line-drawing +character set othwise known as the [DEC Special Character and Line +Drawing Set](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Special_Graphics). They +were left unmodified to not change their intended use by applications +that expect them there. Each of the special characters also has an +"official" Unicode codepoint. Contemporary applications should never +need to render them. This is the mapping: + +|Special |Official |Name | +|--------|---------|---------| +|U+0000 |U+25AE |black vertical rectangle | +|U+0001 |U+25C6 |black diamond | +|U+0002 |U+2592 |medium shade | +|U+0003 |U+2409 |symbol for horizontal tabulation | +|U+0004 |U+240C |symbol for form feed | +|U+0005 |U+240D |symbol for carriage return | +|U+0006 |U+240A |symbol for line feed | +|U+0007 |U+00B0 |degree sign | +|U+0008 |U+00B1 |plus-minus sign | +|U+0009 |U+2424 |symbol for newline | +|U+000a |U+240B |symbol for vertical tabulation | +|U+000b |U+2518 |box drawings light up and left | +|U+000c |U+2510 |box drawings light down and left | +|U+000d |U+250C |box drawings light down and right | +|U+000e |U+2514 |box drawings light up and right | +|U+000f |U+253C |box drawings light vertical and horizontal | +|U+0010 |U+23BA |box drawings scan 1 | +|U+0011 |U+23BB |box drawings scan 3 | +|U+0012 |U+2500 |box drawings light horizontal | +|U+0013 |U+23BC |box drawings scan 7 | +|U+0014 |U+23BD |box drawings scan 9 | +|U+0015 |U+251C |box drawings light vertical and right | +|U+0016 |U+2524 |box drawings light vertical and left | +|U+0017 |U+2534 |box drawings light up and horizontal | +|U+0018 |U+252C |box drawings light down and horizontal | +|U+0019 |U+2502 |box drawings light vertical | +|U+001a |U+2264 |less-than or equal to | +|U+001b |U+2265 |greater-than or equal to | +|U+001c |U+03C0 |greek small letter pi | +|U+001d |U+2260 |not equal to | +|U+001e |U+00A3 |pound sign | +|U+001f |U+00B7 |middle dot | ## TODO |