# XFE Unicode console font

The checked-in `.hex.gz` is the unmodified GNU Unifont 16.0.04 Plane 0 font source.
XFESystem selects **SIL Open Font License 1.1** for this font and the generated
`assets/branding/console/xfe-unicode.bin` subset. The application and original
XFESystem ASCII drawings retain their own project licenses.

Copyright © 1998–2025 Roman Czyborra, Paul Hardy, Qianqian Fang, Andrew Miller,
Johnnie Weaver, David Corbett, Nils Moskopp, Rebecca Bettencourt, Ho-Seok Ee, et al.
The copyright notice is copied from the same upstream release's
`font/otfsrc/Makefile`. No endorsement is implied. The generated subset is named
**XFE Unicode Console**, not Unifont.

- [Upstream release](https://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont/unifont-16.0.04/)
- [Exact glyph source](https://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont/unifont-16.0.04/font-builds/unifont-16.0.04.hex.gz)
- Glyph source SHA256: `f9c8c7802453f47be02677176aeac2342ee96d354fad7a26cedcce48e68e1d9f`
- [Upstream source archive](https://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont/unifont-16.0.04/unifont-16.0.04.tar.gz)
- Archive SHA256: `2bd4e4679757126f48e1bf2c1be40b09aa92162bfedda4683ce5fbc70a2a5972`

`COPYING` and `OFL-1.1.txt` are copied verbatim from that source archive. `COPYING`
includes the alternative GPL version 2 or later with the GNU font embedding
exception, as well as the licenses for upstream utilities and documentation;
those utilities are not embedded in XFESystem.

Rebuild with `python assets/branding/build-console-assets.py` (Pillow 12.3.0).
It checks the source hash before generating the subset. Covered characters include
CJK Unified Ideographs and Extension A, Chinese punctuation, fullwidth forms,
arrows, common Latin/Greek/Cyrillic, and the visible replacement glyph. UTF-8 input
outside the covered ranges uses one replacement glyph per Unicode scalar,
rather than one question mark per UTF-8 byte. Complex text shaping and a Chinese
input method are outside this first bilingual console implementation.