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GNU Unifont is an official GNU package. It is a dual-width
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(8x16/16x16) bitmap font, designed to provide coverage for all of
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Unicode Plane 0, the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
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GNU Unifont has a glyph for each visible code point in the Unicode
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Basic Multilingual Plane (Plane 0) and some glyphs in the Supplemental
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Multilingual Plane (Plane 1). This version also includes many
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glyphs in Michael Everson's ConScript Unicode Registry (CSUR).
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Unifont only provides a single glyph for each character, making it
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impossible to handle any language properly that needs context-dependent
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character shaping. It is supplied in the form of a hex file, with
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a converter to convert it to BDF. See http://czyborra.com/unifont/
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or http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html for more information. The
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BDF font is converted to PCF, and the hex file is converted to a
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TrueType font.
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