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LatGrkCyr - brief notes, primarily about which glyphs are available.

These two fonts are intended to cover current European languages
written with latin, greek, and cyrillic alphabets.  Also esperanto.

For a long time I've been happy with an 8x16 font, but now that I use
kms on a big screen I thought it best to have a bigger font (but I
still use the 1024x768 setting with an 8x16 font on that screen with
one machine).

The 8x16 version will also be available in my sigma-consolefonts
package (a bdf font, some map files to identify which glyphs to use,
some perl, and a Makefile).  That package is targetted at people who
build from source and allows you to easily change the letter forms or
to add different glyphs if you need to.  Because of the limited size
of the character cell, it is sans-serif.  The font is public domain,
the other items are under BSD-style licenses.

The 12x22 font is derived from iso01-12x22 and hence from the sun
12x22 font included in the linux kernel, therefore it is licensed
under the GPLv2.  This font has serifs, although for a few of the
added glyphs I've had to trim them.  As with the sigma font, the
letters have been resized to better allow for accents and diacritical
marks.

My aim is to make the different glyphs reasonably easy to identify,
so I often ignore the "rules" about how to write them - in particular
see the acute, circumflex, and grave accents in the 12x22 font.

Similarly, letters with descenders such as g, p, q have a raised base
so that the descender appears longer.

I've also added a few obscure glyphs which are in the iso01 or latin1
fonts, just in case anyone still uses them.

Latin letters and variants
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Aa Àà Áá Ââ Ãã Ää Åå Āā Ăă Ąą
 Bb
 Cc Çç Ćć Ĉĉ Ċċ Čč
 Dd Ďď Đđ
 Ee Èè Éé Êê Ëë Ēē Ėė Ęę Ěě
 Ff
 Gg Ĝĝ Ğğ Ġġ Ģģ Ǥǥ Ǧǧ
 Hh Ĥĥ Ħħ
 Ii Ìì Íí Îî Ïï Īī Įį İı
 Jj Ĵĵ
 Kk Ķķ Ǩǩ
 Ll Ĺĺ Ļļ Ľľ Ŀŀ Łł
 Mm
 Nn Ññ Ńń Ņņ Ňň
 Oo Òò Óó Ôô Õõ Öö Øø Ōō Őő
 Pp
 Qq
 Rr Ŕŕ Řř
 Ss  ß Śś Ŝŝ Şş Šš Șș
 Tt Ťť Ŧŧ  Țț (also maps Ţţ for old romanian text)
 Uu Ùù Úú Ûû Üü Ūū Ŭŭ Ůů Űű Ųų
 Vv
 Ww Ŵŵ Ẁẁ Ẃẃ Ẅẅ
 Xx
 Yy Ýý Ŷŷ Ÿÿ Ỳỳ [ NB these are ordered by the capitals! ]
 Zz Źź Żż Žž
 Ææ
 Ðð
 Þþ
 Ŋŋ
 Œœ
 Əə [ not really a european letter ]
 Ʒʒ Ǯǯ
  ĸ [ obsolete, but it's presence is my 'signature' ]

Greek letters, etc
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ʹ number sign  ͵ lower number sign  ΄ tonos  ΅ dialytika and tonos
 ; greek question mark
 Αα Άά Ββ Γγ Δδ Εε Έέ Ζζ Ηη Ήή Θθ Ιι Ίί Ϊϊ  ΐ Κκ Λλ Μμ Νν Ξξ Οο Όό Ππ
  Ρρ Σςσ   Ττ  Υυ Ύύ Ϋϋ ΰ [ again, ordered by the uppercase versions ]
 Φφ Χχ Ψψ Ωω Ώώ

Cyrillic letters and variants
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Аа Ӓӓ Бб Вв Гг Ѓѓ Ґґ Дд Ее Ѐѐ Ёё Жж Ӂӂ Зз Ии Йй Ѝѝ Ҋҋ Кк Лл Ӆӆ Мм Ӎӎ
 Нн Ӈӈ Ӊӊ Оо Пп Рр Ҏҏ Сс Тт Уу Ўў Фф Хх Цц Чч Шш Щщ Ъъ Ыы Ьь Ээ Ӭӭ Юю
 Яя Ђђ Єє Ѕѕ Іі Її Јј Љљ Њњ Ћћ Ќќ Џџ Ҍҍ Һһ

Digits
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Currencies
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$ dollar
 ¢ cent
 £ sterling
 ¤ number sign used for other currencies
 ¥ yen
 ƒ florin (a cheat, but costs nothing)
 € euro
 ₴ hryvnia

Punctuation
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! " ' ( ) , - : ; ? [ ] _ ` { | } ¡ « » ¿ „ … ‹ ›

Accents and other diacriticals
 ^ ~ ¨ ¯ ° ´ ¸ ˇ ˘ ˙ ˛

Other symbols

and of course � (U+fffd) for invalid-unicode or no-glyph

There are also some graphics characters, but I doubt anyone uses
those now.

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