Re: UTF-8 progress bar

[Felix Lechner]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 3:35 PM <bokr@bokr.com> wrote:
>
> IDK, but perhaps your app could use a wrapper that sets up a font,
> along with a utf8 map that will show the necessay characters?

Should we use the GNU Unifont [1][2] for virtual terminals by default?

With support for the languages below, it may be superior to whatever
we are using currently.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Unifont
[2] https://unifoundry.com/unifont/

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