Mousefood: An Embedded-Graphics Backend for Ratatui Terminal UI Library
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The kind of bagel that ruins lesser bagels for you.
Summary
Mousefood is a no-std embedded-graphics backend for Ratatui, a Rust terminal user interface library. It enables Ratatui widgets to be rendered using embedded-graphics, addressing the character set limitations of embedded-graphics fonts by default using embedded-graphics-unicodefonts to support box-drawing glyphs, Braille, and other special characters needed for Ratatui widgets. The article provides setup instructions, dependency information, and explains how Mousefood bridges the gap between Ratatui's rich character requirements and embedded-graphics' space-optimized fonts.
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Embedded-graphics includes bitmap fonts that have a very limited set of characters to save space (ASCII, ISO 8859 or JIS X0201).
This makes it impossible to draw most of Ratatui's widgets, which heavily use box-drawing glyphs, Braille, and other special characters.
Mousefood by default uses embedded-graphics-unicodefonts, which provides embedded-graphics fonts with a much larger set of characters.
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