#1023575 neo-cli: charset=runic includes pseudo-runes

Package:
neo-cli
Source:
neo-cli
Description:
digital rain simulator
Submitter:
Adam Borowski
Date:
2026-07-26 14:39:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1023575#5
Date:
2022-11-06 21:41:49 UTC
From:
To:
Package: neo-cli
Version: 0.6.1-1
Severity: normal

Hi!
If you run neo with --charset=runic, besides of actual runes (ie, letters
that have been used in various historical periods), the program also uses
a bunch of symbols that had no real-life use (U+16F1..U+16F8):
 * Tolkien:
   * U+16F1 included in The Hobbit when Tolkien found no way to spell his
     name within Anglo-Saxon runes
   * U+16F2 and U+16F3 from a personal letter
 * Franks Casket:
   * U+16F4..U+16F8 (these at least come from 8th century) are weird
     variant letters not attested anywhere else, for reasons not
     known despite generations of research but conjectured to be unique
     numerologic rune magic.

But you probably care less about actual historical reasons.  A practical
one is that the rest of runes come from Unicode 3.0 (1999) while the
U+16F1..U+16F8 symbols were added only in Unicode 7.0 (2014) and thus
are missing from most fonts we ship.  This results in ugly replacement
symbols marring the display.

Also: eg. cyrillic uses actual letters only, not a medieval scribe's
doodles like "multiocular o" that was drawn in a single copy of a book
from 1429 -- yet got encoded in Unicode anyway.


Meow!
#1023575#10
Date:
2022-11-07 08:08:58 UTC
From:
To:
Reported upstream: https://github.com/st3w/neo/issues/30

Cheers

Matthias
#1023575#15
Date:
2026-07-26 14:36:20 UTC
From:
To:
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
neo-cli, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1023575@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Matthias Geiger <werdahias@debian.org> (supplier of updated neo-cli package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:42:54 +0200
Source: neo-cli
Architecture: source
Version: 0.6.1-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Matthias Geiger <werdahias@debian.org>
Changed-By: Matthias Geiger <werdahias@debian.org>
Closes: 1023575
Changes:
 neo-cli (0.6.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Add patch removing pseudorunes (Closes: #1023575)
   * d/control: Update my email
   * d/control: Bump S-V to 4.7.4; drop priority: optional, RRR
   * d/control: Switch to stable dh-compat 14
   * d/gbp.conf: Add
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