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=== The Gallant Console Font got Supercharged Links: + link:https://github.com/NanoBillion/gallant[Gallant Project] URL: link:https://github.com/NanoBillion/gallant[] Contact: Jens Schweikhardt <[email protected]> The man:vt[4] console font "gallant" was extended in -CURRENT and 14-STABLE. This increased the Unicode glyph count from 502 to more than 4500. Old-timers know and love this font from watching Sun SPARCstations boot. Major additions: * Greek * Cyrillic * International Phonetic Association Extensions * Extended Latin characters * Zapf Dingbats * Tons of arrows * Tons of mathematical symbols * Letterlike symbols and enclosed alphanumerics * Pixel-perfect box drawing * Currency symbols * More punctuation * Just enough Katakana to say コンニチハ * Powerline glyphs in the Private Use Area at U+e0a0 Your help is needed to add more languages. You can contribute via the link:https://github.com/NanoBillion/gallant[Gallant Project]. But wait, there is more! You do not bother with console fonts and use X11 exclusively? Get that gallant feeling with the new port package:x11-fonts/gallant[] and run xterm -fa '' -fn '*-gallant-*' To inspect the available glyphs under X11, run xfd -fn '*-gallant-*'