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uf5x7: A 5x7 Unicode font
uf5x7 is a 5x7 font that suports most of the common Unicode blocks. It can be used in C.Basic with the custom font mechanism or in add-ins if the font manager supports it.
The font is under CC0, there are no conditions for using it. A link back here would be appreciated though!
Related topic on Planète Casio: Police 5x7 Unicode pour add-ins et C.Basic
Currently the following blocks have been drawn:
U+0020 .. U+007F
- ASCII (128 chars)U+00A0 .. U+00FF
- Latin-1 Supplement (96 chars)U+0100 .. U+017F
- Latin Extended-A (128 chars)U+0370 .. U+03FF
- Greek (144 chars)U+0400 .. U+047F
- Cyrillic (128 chars)U+16A0 .. U+16FF
- Runic (96 chars)U+2010 .. U+205F
- General punctuation (80 chars)U+2070 .. U+209F
- Subscripts and superscripts (48 chars)U+20A0 .. U+20BF
- Currency symbols (32 chars - thanks @Alice!)U+2160 .. U+217F
- Roman numerals (32 chars)U+2190 .. U+21FF
- Arrows (112 chars)U+2200 .. U+22FF
- Mathematical operators (256 chars)U+2440 .. U+244F
- Optical character recognition (16 chars - thanks @Alice!)U+25A0 .. U+25FF
- Geometric shapes (96 chars)U+2800 .. U+28FF
- Braille patterns (256 chars - thanks @Alice!)U+3000 .. U+303F
- CJK Punctuation (48 chars - thanks @Alice!)
The following blocks are being considered for future support:
- Finish Cyrillic
- IPA extensions and Phonetic extensions
- Hiragana and Katakana
Other characters supported in FONTCHARACTER
(incomplete list):
U+2139
- Imaginary numberU+231F
- Fraction symbol
Constructing a full image of the font
The gen.py
script can be used to generate uf5x7.png
, the full image of the
font. You will need Python 3 and Pillow (PIL might be okay).
% ./gen.py uf5x7/*
It will read each block's position from its file name (which should be on the
form U\+[0-9A-Fa-f]{4}.png
) and guess the block end from the image
dimensions. For image files with a different name, it will output an anonymous
block.
The file gen-chars.png
provides some character templates for it to render the
full image.
Using in C.Basic
TODO - Check out the documentation (egadget2.web.fc2.com) for extended font support.
Using in gint
To convert the font with fxconv
, pass the name of a folder containing
block images instead of a simple image and set charset
to unicode
. Note
that in this setting, area
is ignored and the same grid parameters are
applied to all block images.
% fxconv -f uf5x7/ name:uf5x7 charset:unicode grid.size:5x7
When using the fxSDK, you can simply create a folder under assets-fx
or
assets-cg
with the block files of your choice, for instance
assets-fx/uf5x7/U+0020.png
.
To use the font, configure it with dfont()
, then call dtext()
as usual.
Make sure the string is encoded as UTF-8. The u8
prefix can be used if your
source file is not encoded as UTF-8.
dtext(5, 5, "Mézalors Δ=2 ⇒ ∀x∈S, x⊆Δ", BLACK, WHITE);