PC Screen Font
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The '''PC Screen Font''' ('''PSF''') format is a fixed-width bitmap font format originally used on the PC under MS-DOS. It was subsequently adopted and extended for Linux console fonts. | The '''PC Screen Font''' ('''PSF''') format is a fixed-width bitmap font format originally used on the PC under MS-DOS. It was subsequently adopted and extended for Linux console fonts. | ||
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== Identification == | == Identification == | ||
Revision as of 23:11, 26 February 2016
The PC Screen Font (PSF) format is a fixed-width bitmap font format originally used on the PC under MS-DOS. It was subsequently adopted and extended for Linux console fonts.
PSF has been extended to support Unicode. The .psfu file extension is sometimes used to indicate that the file includes Unicode mappings, though .psf files often have them as well.
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Identification
Files begin with bytes 0x36 0x04 (version 1) or 0x72 0xb5 0x4a 0x86 (version 2).
Specifications
Software
Sample files
- console-setup-linux package → console-setup-linux_*.deb → /usr/share/consolefonts/*.psf.gz
