Programmatically modifying ancient fonts (opens in new tab)

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35 pointspawptart3y ago2 comments

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Ancient means 1993 apparently.

> * ...delving into the almost 30-year-old BDF 2.2 font specification from 1993 to figure out how to add Unicode A4D8 (ꓘ) support *

I suppose that makes me a mythical person, because i'm from before ancient times. ;-). I've valid pascal code from before then & it still runs in the console nowdays.

0xdeadb00f3y ago

I've done this with bitmap fonts before. Fun times

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cmroanirgo3y ago

Ancient means 1993 apparently.

> * ...delving into the almost 30-year-old BDF 2.2 font specification from 1993 to figure out how to add Unicode A4D8 (ꓘ) support *

I suppose that makes me a mythical person, because i'm from before ancient times. ;-). I've valid pascal code from before then & it still runs in the console nowdays.

0xdeadb00f3y ago

I've done this with bitmap fonts before. Fun times

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse