EURORUS + PANCYRILLIC + VIETRUS + GREEKRUS

512-character console fonts for Linux.

 (C) 2002 Andrey V. Lukyanov
 e-mail: land@long.yar.ru

Last changed: 2002-11-22


Original location of the font archive:

http://stgazeta.chat.ru/download/eurorus.tar.gz

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The author grants permission for unlimited, free of charge, use and
distribution of these fonts, as well as for their inclusion in any other
software packages.

It is also permitted to modify these fonts and to derive new fonts from
them.

The author gives no warranties whatsoever regarding the use of this
font, not even the implied warranty of its suitability for a particular
purpose.

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EURORUS

(European/Russian)

Version 1.3

Font file name is "eurorus.f16.psf"

This font contains 512 characters and includes an Unicode remapping
table. Height of the font is 16 pixels, width 8 pixels.


The font contains all characters to support the following codepages:

iso8859-1/2/3/4/5/9/10/13/15 (i.e. Latin-1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/0), cp850,
cp855, cp866, cp1125, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1257, HP-Roman8,
MacCyrillic, koi8-r, koi8-u.

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PANCYRILLIC

Version 1.15

The font file name is "pancyrillic.f16.psf"

The font contains 512 characters and includes an Unicode remapping
table. Height of the font is 16 pixels, width 8 pixels.


The font contains _all_ Cyrillic characters according to the Unicode
standard v.3.2 (currently 262 Cyrillic characters are described).

The Unicode Cyrillic range is from U+0400 to U+052F. Internally, the
fonts maps the characters from U+0400 to U+04FF into glyphs
0x100--0x1FF, and characters from U+0500 to U+052F into glyphs
0x80--0xAF.

Besides Cyrillics, the font includes some other characters in order to
implement a complete support for the following codepages:

iso8859-5, koi8-r, koi8-u, cp855, cp866, cp1125, cp1251, MacCyrillic.

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VIETRUS

(Vietnamese/Russian)

Version 1.11

The font file name is "vietrus.f16.psf"

The font contains 512 characters and includes an Unicode remapping
table. Height of the font is 16 pixels, width 8 pixels.


The font contains all characters for the Vietnamese language according
to the VISCII and cp1258 standards, as well as all Pinyin characters
(Pinyin is the Chinese official transcription in PRC).


Besides that, the font contains a complete set of characters for
Cyrillic codepages:

iso8859-5, koi8-r, koi8-u, cp855, cp866, cp1125, cp1251, MacCyrillic

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GREEKRUS

(Greek/Russian)

Version 1.11

Font file name -- "greekrus.f16.psf"


The font contains 512 characters and includes an Unicode remapping
table. Height of the font is 16 pixels, width 8 pixels.


The font contains all characters for Greek codepages:

iso8859-7, cp737, cp1253


and all characters for Cyrillic codepages:

iso8859-5, koi8-r, koi8-u, cp855, cp866, cp1125, cp1251, MacCyrillic


Besides that, the font contains characters for West European codepages:

iso8859-1/9/15 (i.e. Latin-1/5/0), cp437, cp850, cp1252, cp1254,
HP-Roman8.

and all graphical characters VT100.


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How to use console fonts on Linux

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To load a font, use a command like this:

 consolechars -f [font_file_name] -m [coding_file_name]

example: consolechars -f eurorus.f16 -m iso02

(the thing after the "-m" switch is the name of an ACM (application
charset map) file. The ACM files most probably are in the directory
"/lib/kbd/consoletrans/".)

After loading the font, the screen codings may be changed with commands
like this:

 consolechars -m cp1257

To show all characters contained in the current font, use the command

 showcfont


If you want to make a font the default console font for your computer,
edit the file "/etc/sysconfig/i18n". It should look like this:

 SYSFONT=eurorus.f16
 SYSFONTACM=iso02

The fonts themselves should be put in your directory for console fonts
(this may be "/lib/kbd/consolefonts/").

Then the font will be loaded automatically at the computer startup. If
you have changed console font during your work, then you can reload the
initial font with the command "setsysfont".

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