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diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/gallant.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/gallant.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4a307984f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/gallant.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +=== The Gallant Console Font got Supercharged + +Links: + +link:https://github.com/NanoBillion/gallant[Gallant Project] description] URL: link:https://github.com/NanoBillion/gallant[] + +Contact: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@FreeBSD.org> + +The man:vt[4] console font "gallant" was extended in -CURRENT and 14-STABLE. +This increased the Unicode glyph count from 502 to more than 4500. +Old-timers know and love this font from watching Sun SPARCstations boot. + +Major additions: + +* Greek +* Cyrillic +* International Phonetic Association Extensions +* Extended Latin characters +* Zapf Dingbats +* Tons of arrows +* Tons of mathematical symbols +* Letterlike symbols and enclosed alphanumerics +* Pixel-perfect box drawing +* Currency symbols +* More punctuation +* Just enough Katakana to say コンニチハ +* Powerline glyphs in the Private Use Area at U+e0a0 + +Your help is needed to add more languages. +You can contribute via the link:https://github.com/NanoBillion/gallant[Gallant Project]. + +But wait, there is more! +You do not bother with console fonts and use X11 exclusively? +Get that gallant feeling with the new port package:x11-fonts/gallant[] and run + + xterm -fa '' -fn '*-gallant-*' + +To inspect the available glyphs under X11, run + + xfd -fn '*-gallant-*' |