source: https://www.inp.nsk.su/~bolkhov/files/fonts/univga/

px- variant: traced pixel outlines
mx- variant: traced pixel outlines + embedded bitmap font + Windows CJK hack

This wouldn't be possible without int10h's oldschool fonts writeup.

For good measure, a copy of original source package is included in this repository in uni_vga subdirectory.

TODO: Embed actual Hiragana glyphs instead of empty placeholders in the mx- variant.

UNI-VGA is a Unicode VGA font for X11 and console. It is primarily intended to be the single source of fonts for console and for XDosEmu.

The font (u_vga16) is distributed in BDF format, and can be used in X11 as is. For use on console, the bdf2psf.pl script is included, which performs (BDF+SFM)->PSF conversion, using .sfm file as encoding table.

One of the aims while creating the font was its internal consistency. For example, accented glyphs shouldn't differ too much from unaccented ones, as it was in original IBM's VGA font. It also allowed to render Latin Extended Additional glyphs with two accents, which was impossible with IBM's accents' size.

This font was designed to be usable both in 9-pixel (VGA text console) and in 8-pixel (framebuffer console and X11) modes, with VGA 8th->9th pixel expansion accurately taken into account.

The UNI-VGA font can be distributed and modified freely, according to the X license.

The Basic Latin block was taken almost unchanged from DosEmu's vga.bdf. All the other blocks (except noted) were created mainly from scratch by me, Dmitry Bolkhovityanov.

Letters in the Hebrew block were taken unchanged from a public domain hebrew console font.

Glyphs in Arabic, Arabic Presentation Forms-A, Arabic Presentation Forms-B and U+262B Farsi symbol were kindly donated by Behdad Esfahbod.

Thanks to Birger Langkjer for idea, to Mark Leisher for his wonderful XmBDFEd, and to many others for their support.

Copyright © 2001 by Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov
TTF port by Illyan Garte 2022