Julian Satchell
Julian Satchell
This might be a convenient way to bundle up a set of styling changes for Linux console support. I think I have boiled the dominant issues down to two points:...
I will investigate, but it looks like the zap fonts include more box drawing chars, and map the Unicode 2500 range, so might be an option. See https://www.zap.org.au/projects/console-fonts-zap/.
I work at QinetiQ, in the UK, although we have branches round the world. On Wed, 18 Sept 2024, 09:48 Will McGugan, ***@***.***> wrote: > Textual is quite configurable, so...
Further observations. I have tried the ansi_colors switch from version 0.80.0 onwards, and it doesn't help with my specific problems. I can improve things a lot by fiddling with the...
The 512 glyph Zap fonts have lots more accented, Greek and Cyrillic characters, not block drawing. I have found a PSF font with block drawing; psf-unifont. It is primarily intended...
I think the practical solution is a custom PCF font. Textual needs 16 colour support, so no more than 256 glyphs, and it needs a full set of the line...
PCF fonts are used by the Linux console. Strict ASCII only mode loses nice features like button outlines and scroll bars. It looks fairly ugly, and obviously can not support...
I think the right thing is 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 4. The zero padding should come first. If I convert to say u32, then do to_be_bytes on that, I...
Fixes issue #5011
Happy with all of that, completely agree. I will re-sync with main, make the suggested changes, and update the PR. Thank you for your help. On Sat, Dec 6, 2025...