Comment 2 for bug 812396

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote : Re: Coverage: CP437: Please add symbols for the suits to Ubuntu Mono

The 53 missing glyphs reported as missing during build of a CP437 bitmap font:

  11 ASCII/ANSI box-drawing characters (in the mono font but not mapped): bug #788757
  1 figure-width space (easy, particularly in a monospace!)
  2 smiling faces (perhaps import from Ubuntu Pictogram library for consistency)
  4 Card suits (this bug): bug #812396
  2 Male/female gender signs [0]
  1 inverse-video mid-dot
  1 Sun/compass
  4 heavy arrows (Otto has sketched curved versions for drop-down UI-elements matching the font)
  4 thin arrows; need to connect up with thin box-drawing
  3 thin double-arrows (need to line up with thin box-drawing)
  2 musical notes (Cody Boisclair was doing these): bug #655350
  1 rectangle, 1 square, 4 half-blocks (easy recto-linear)
  2 integral operators (need to connect up with thin line-drawing)
  1 House
  1 Peseta ligature (currency)
  1 double exclamation mark (easy pure composite)
  1 Latin superscript 'n': bug #672557
  3 Mathematical/set operators (+1 right-angle)

I guess (given the intended purpose of the monospace => terminal font) this should have been specified originally although in order to increase the chance of Ubuntu Mono making Ubuntu 11.04 this missing stuff might have to wait until after the community-expansion phase starts in earnest. (They would just need copying-and-pasting between all four weights of the monospace as they're the same glyphs).

Cody: perhaps you'd be able to gather up ideas for all of the above (in vector) form. Most are simple recto-linear forms, the creative font input probably only needs to go into the subtle curves on the suits, house roof and perhaps the rays of the sun.

[0] Perhaps borrow from Ubuntu Women Logo? ( http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=3173 ) Question is whether that might be branding things a bit much?