From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Mon Jun 20 2005 - 15:25:49 CDT
Off of this topic, which is better answered by others already:
Once Upon a Time, when IBM-PCs still spent most of their time in text
mode, I designed a text screen font that had the symbol in the bottom
part of the character cell and the character code in tiny numerals in
the top part. I had a hexadecimal version and also a decimal version,
though there wasn't room for three digits and I just set zero, one, or
two one-pixel dots for the hundreds digit. Surprisingly useful, actually.
~mark
Raymond Mercier wrote:
> In Red Hat 9, I found that when Mozilla displayed some Chinese text,
> it showed instead of each character a neat little square with the
> Unicode hex value written in 2 rows. The font was just named 'serif',
> and I believe it is Postscript. I am sure I have seen this somewhere,
> but would like to be reminded about it. Is there a name for this
> display ? What font(s) use it ?
> I was using Redhat in Virtual PC and did not manage to extract the
> font to the physical disk.
> Raymond Mercier
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