Unscii

Unscii ist ein Set von Bitmap Unicode-Fonts denen klassische Systemschriftarten zugrundeliegen. Da das Unicode Konsortium lies die daraus entstehenden neuen Möglichkeiten für Ansi Art allerdings immer links liegen. Hier haben wir also erstmals eine Fontart-kompatible Unicode Schrift.

15.12.25

Years ago, I noticed that Unicode had a bunch of pseudographic characters that could be used to enrichen Ansi art. However, no one seemed to use them. Even MUDs that used the 256-color Xterm palette and had no issues with Unicode still preferred to stick to the blocks available in the MS-DOS codepage 437.

After looking into existing Unicode fonts, the reason became obvious: the implementation of non-CP437 graphics characters was shaky at best. Unicode Consortium doesn’t even care how pseudographics are implemented. It was a kind of chicken-and-egg problem: No commonly accepted Unicode graphics font, no Unicode art scene; no art scene, no font support. The idea of an art-compatible Unicode font was born.

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