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terminal: add unifont font-handling
authorDavid Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:34:03 +0000 (17:34 +0200)
committerDavid Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:45:33 +0000 (17:45 +0200)
commit86db5dfb6d334e583ea4161191754522ce850eed
tree5abc777472cb907b954f63e8523e95dfa494e974
parent545149a2fc3523bbcbf3703fae3ae1ca5312f8c8
terminal: add unifont font-handling

The unifont layer of libsystemd-terminal provides a fallback font for
situations where no system-fonts are available, or if you don't want to
deal with traditional font-formats for some reasons.

The unifont API mmaps a pre-compiled bitmap font that was generated out of
GNU-Unifont font-data. This guarantees, that all users of the font will
share the pages in memory. Furthermore, the layout of the binary file
allows accessing glyph data in O(1) without pre-rendering glyphs etc. That
is, the OS can skip loading pages for glyphs that we never access.

Note that this is currently a test-run and we want to include the binary
file in the GNU-Unifont package. However, until it was considered stable
and accepted by the maintainers, we will ship it as part of systemd. So
far it's only enabled with the experimental --enable-terminal, anyway.
.gitignore
Makefile.am
src/libsystemd-terminal/test-unifont.c [new file with mode: 0644]
src/libsystemd-terminal/unifont-def.h [new file with mode: 0644]
src/libsystemd-terminal/unifont-glyph-array.bin [new file with mode: 0644]
src/libsystemd-terminal/unifont-internal.h [new file with mode: 0644]
src/libsystemd-terminal/unifont.c [new file with mode: 0644]
src/libsystemd-terminal/unifont.hex [new file with mode: 0644]
tools/compile-unifont.py [new file with mode: 0755]