Package: tv-fonts Version: 1.1-9 Severity: wishlist The tv-fonts package provides fonts for displaying ETS Teletext, which uses block characters to form graphics. These characters have been accepted for Unicode 13.0 (not yet released):
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19025-terminals-prop.pdf Previously there was a de-facto standard for these characters to be mapped in to the Unicode private-use region, and this is what tv-fonts does. In order for the fonts to be compatible with applications using the newer Unicode standard, the glyphs inside the font need to be re-assigned to different code points. There are a few considerations for this: 1. The new Unicode standard uses unification so the mapping from old to new code points is not linear. 2. The new standard does not specify separate code points for separated mosaics. Instead this is a visual property like "bold" or "underline" to be indicated by a control code or escape sequence - which is application specific. This means that the new Unicode standard may not be compatible with all software using the glyphs. 3. Unicode 13.0 is not released yet. It is possible that the code points may still change. However we can still look at doing the work. It is not at all clear to me where the upstream for this package is, or if there even is one. That is why I am reporting this bug against Debian. I am willing to do the work on patching the font but I don't know how to get the result in to Debian. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers bionic-updates APT policy: (500, 'bionic-updates'), (500, 'bionic-security'), (500, 'bionic'), (100, 'bionic-backports') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.0.0-31-generic (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages tv-fonts depends on: ii xfonts-utils 1:7.7+6 tv-fonts recommends no packages. tv-fonts suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
