BESCII the ASCII font for Basic Engine

uli Yes, I can fix that without problem. ️
I'll do it as soon as possible.
I was also thinking: is it possible to create some sort of "graphic mode" that enable to put other available characters?
Just speaking my mind here. Don't know if possible or practical. But it would be nice to have more characters available.
If possible it would allow for many glyphs more to be used for creating games.
Edit: btw, if you want me to leave the original PETSCII characters as they are, I can do that. It's just that some are simply bad, and given the opportunity to fix them (and give BE a special flavour) seemed like too tempting a opportunity to miss...

uli Can you elaborate on what you mean by that?

Yes. What I was thinking was that maybe a key combination can be used to enable a further graphics mode.

What I mean is: lets say you hit CTRL-ALT-' (the key to the left of one in the keyboard, for example). That enables a special "graphic mode" (with a different cursor to signal you're in that special mode). When you enable this mode, instead of the regular characters, you get a complete new set of characters from the same key combinations, that are mapped to a different place in Unicode. These could be the characters from the Pixel Art section, for example. This mode could be disabled by hitting the same key combination or the ESC key.

The idea is to give easy access to more characters, without resorting to obscure key combinations, like the Alt-codes of the past. Because there's no easy way to use more characters from Unicode's higher planes than the ones already mapped to the keyboard. If I don't have a German keyboard, and I want to write an eszett, what can I do? This is normally solved with Alt-codes. It's a pretty obscure solution.

But it's just an idea. I don't know if it's possible of practical.

(Btw: when thinking about this, I remembered the Spectrum, where the cursor was modal and would change to allow you to type BASIC commands by just pressing one key. In the "command mode", pressing [P] will give you "PRINT". and it's this modal nature that made me think of this idea. But modal interfaces could be difficult to understand, if not implemented correctly).

uli It seems to me that the PUA mapping is not identical to the C64 Pro Mono font, though. Could that be fixed?

I'll need a little help from you here, because I've checked the font and there are several mappings included for any single character.
Are the ones you need the ones they call "Direct PETSCII PUA mapping" from E020 to E0FF?
They also have the inverted ones from E220 to E2FF. Do you need those too?
There's a secondary PUA mapping for those same characters from EE20 to EEDE. Do you need that mapping too?

I have my characters mapped to the regular Unicode mappings. I can add the PUA mappings without problems, just let me know which ones you need. The Pixel Art ones were from E000 to E052, but I'm moving them to F000 onwards, so there's no possible collision there.

uli New version of Bescii! (v1.2)

http://damianvila.com/bescii/bescii.ttf

I mapped all the PUA characters to the PETSCII reference. Both your mappings and Tamakichi-san's mappings should be there (I checked, but if you see something missing, let me know.)

I also mapped the Amstrad characters you have mapped to 0x20 to the following code points:

[0xef] = 0xefef, (rocket symbol)
[0xfc] = 0xeffc, (bomb symbol)
[0xfd] = 0xeffd, (wtf? > cloud with lightning symbol)

I'll include the same mapping in the Amstrad font, but I'll update that later, since I want to expand it to support more languages.

And I modified a couple pixel art characters, and added a few more (they're remapped to f000-f067):

Let me know what you think.

Amstrad CPC 464 font updated to v1.1:

http://damianvila.com/basicengine/cpc464.ttf

Includes all Mac Roman and Windows 1252 characters (Western European languages), and the non-unicode characters mapping mentioned before.
Edit: the uppercase Eszett is included, even though is not included in Mac Roman and Windows 1252.

uli No problem! I was planning on doing a 6x8, since I know you prefer that.
I'll try to make it as complete as possible, though kana in a 6x8 is really challenging, especially with the modifiers.

(As a note: most kana or kanji pixel fonts I see are at least 12px tall. C64 is one of the few 8x8 one's out there).

Edit: I just checked that 6x8 kanji... it's simply useless, as expected. You get a hint of the character, but need a lot of imagination to find out which one it is. The kana is useful. ️

uli Ok, here you have a first version. I called the font "Lexis" (for the "LX" in "100LX", which, by the way, comes from "Lotus eXpandable"):

https://damianvila.com/lexis/lexis.ttf

These are the included characters:

They include all Mac Roman and Windows-1252 characters (for Western European Languages), Cyrillic, Hebrew, Greek (classic), Hiragana and Katakana (taken, from the 6x8 font you linked, I didn't want to take chances here, and prefer using something done by a Japanese person), all the included extra characters in the original font.

Let me know what you think, or if you need anything else/different.

All fonts published on GitHub, in their respective repositories:

https://github.com/damianvila/font-bescii
https://github.com/damianvila/font-cpc464
https://github.com/damianvila/font-atascii
https://github.com/damianvila/font-lexis

Enjoy!