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PSF2 fonts
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At present, these fonts work only with the Linux framebuffer port. It is likely that they'll eventually be used with SDLn and DOSVGA, and possibly others, thereby enabling a lot of redundant code to be consolidated.
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SDLn in non-wide mode uses its own font format, in which the font is a monochrome Microsoft(R) Windows .bmp file, with 32 characters across and eight down. For example, this is the default SDLn font :
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At one time, a [wide selection of SDL fonts](https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdcurses/files/sdlfonts/1.0/sdlfonts.zip/download) was distributed with PDCurses. The `bmp2psf2` program was written to convert SDL-formatted fonts into the [`psf2` format](https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/font-formats-1.html). `psf2` is more widely used and allows for more than 256 glyphs (in fact, up to 2^32-1 glyphs, with Unicode information.)
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This directory contains the SDL fonts after conversion to the `psf2` format. See the [README file](README) for details on which fonts are which, history, and copyright/licence info.
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[Tools are available elsewhere for manipulating/converting `psf2` fonts.](https://www.seasip.info/Unix/PSF/)
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