DISPLAYFONT(1)

💖 DISPLAYFONT(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page about displayfont from the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the universe, and it's literally just here to show you a linux console font. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

displayfont — display linux console font 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

displayfont [-8|-14|-16] [-k[eep]] [font]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so, the displayfont program displays whatever font you hand it, straight onto the console. if you don't hand it a font at all? no worries babe, it just displays the current font. main character energy honestly. 👑

and here's the thing — every single character gets shown, no matter what special meaning any of them might have. it does not care. it does not judge. all characters are shown, regardless of their possible special meaning. periodt. 💀

⚠️ also, real talk: the program hardly attempts to restore original console state, font and unicode mapping after usage. like, it's not gonna tuck your console back in afterwards. she's a little chaotic, we love her anyway. 🙈

oh and p.s. — 512-character fonts are handled as well. she's flexible. ⭐

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -8, -14, -16 — pick the font size for files that are in codepage format (.cp). three sizes, three choices, choose your fighter. 🍓
• -keep — do not restore the original font and unicode mapping. it just leaves everything as-is, no takebacks. can be abbreviated down to -k, because who has time for the whole word. 💅

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• console(4)
• setfont(8)
• showfont (no such manpage? 😭 bestie we looked, it's giving mystery)

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💀 BUGS 💀

• linux-specific, babes. it was not tested on non-i386 systems. so if you're out here on something exotic, you're in uncharted territory. godspeed. 🧚

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Cyril Slobin <slobin@iname.com>

Public Domain
Made on Earth

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🌈 and that's the whole page, no cap. this was pulled from perl v5.32.1, dated 2022-01-04, in the DISPLAYFONT(1) era. go forth and display those fonts, icon. 💖✨