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Myria: /* Unicode Private Use characters */ grammar fix

2018-03-11T19:34:48Z

Unicode Private Use characters: grammar fix

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	Some of these characters are used for tutorial message boxes and notifications; they can also be generally used in [[Mii]] names, [[SMDH\|application titles]], etc.		Some of these characters are used for tutorial message boxes and notifications; they can also be generally used in [[Mii]] names, [[SMDH\|application titles]], etc.

	Most of these originated in the "icons" tab of the DS's standard software keyboard, and were extensively used in ~~it's~~ firmware UI.		Most of these originated in the "icons" tab of the DS's standard software keyboard, and were extensively used in its firmware UI.

	{\|border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;"		{\|border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;"

Wwylele at 18:46, 26 April 2017

2017-04-26T16:46:39Z

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	\| 0x80		\| 0x80
	\| Font data size		\| Font data size
	\| The actual font data. ~~There's also unknown~~ data ~~following~~ the ~~original decompressed~~ font data.		\| The actual font data.
			\|-
			\| 0x80 + Font data size
			\| 0x332000 - 0x80 - Font data size
			\| This is leftover data from decompression operation. During the font loading process, compressed data is loaded to <code>sharedmem + 0x332000 - compressed_size_aligned_to_4</code>, and then is decompressed to <code>sharedmem + 0x80</code>. Compressed data at the end that doesn't get overwritten by decompressed data remains in the shared memory
	\|}		\|}

Wwylele at 17:17, 26 April 2017

2017-04-26T15:17:59Z

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	\| 0x0		\| 0x0
	\| 0x4		\| 0x4
	\| ~~Normally value 0x2?~~		\| Status.
			1: loading system font

			2: system font loaded

			3: failed to load system font
	\|-		\|-
	\| 0x4		\| 0x4
	\| 0x4		\| 0x4
	\| 1 ~~for~~ region JPN/EUR/USA; 2 ~~for~~ CHN; 3 ~~for~~ KOR; 4 ~~for~~ TWN		\| Region. Indicates which [[Title_list#0004009B_-_Shared_Data_Archives\|system font archive]] is loaded
			1: region JPN/EUR/USA (archive 0004009B00014002)

			2: region CHN (archive 0004009B00014102)

			3: region KOR (archive 0004009B00014202)

			4: region TWN (archive 0004009B00014302)
	\|-		\|-
	\| 0x8		\| 0x8
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	\|-		\|-
	\| 0xC		\| 0xC
	\| ~~0x34~~		\| 0x74
	\| Normally all-zero?		\| Normally all-zero?
	\|}		\|}

Wwylele: region info in header, RE'd from NS module

2017-04-25T19:27:12Z

region info in header, RE'd from NS module

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	\| 0x4		\| 0x4
	\| 0x4		\| 0x4
	\| ~~Normally value 0x1?~~		\| 1 for region JPN/EUR/USA; 2 for CHN; 3 for KOR; 4 for TWN
	\|-		\|-
	\| 0x8		\| 0x8

Ryccardo: Special characters

2016-03-29T08:17:14Z

Special characters

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	\| Normally all-zero?		\| Normally all-zero?
	\|}		\|}

			==Unicode Private Use characters==

			Some of these characters are used for tutorial message boxes and notifications; they can also be generally used in [[Mii]] names, [[SMDH\|application titles]], etc.

			Most of these originated in the "icons" tab of the DS's standard software keyboard, and were extensively used in it's firmware UI.

			{\|border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;"
			\|-
			\| colspan="17" style="background:#F8F8F8;text-align:center" \| ''Private Use Area''
			\|----- style="background:#ccf"
			!width="4%"\|U+!!width="6%"\|0!!width="6%"\|1!!width="6%"\|2!!width="6%"\|3!!width="6%"\|4!!width="6%"\|5!!width="6%"\|6!!width="6%"\|7!!width="6%"\|8!!width="6%"\|9!!width="6%"\|A!!width="6%"\|B!!width="6%"\|C!!width="6%"\|D!!width="6%"\|E!!width="6%"\|F
			\|----- align="center"
			!E00x
			\|A button\|\|B button\|\|X button\|\|Y button\|\|L button\|\|R button\|\|D-pad (unmarked)\|\|DS alarm clock\|\|Boxed emoticon :)\|\|Boxed emoticon >(\|\|Boxed emoticon :O\|\|Boxed emoticon -_-\|\|Sun\|\|Cloud\|\|Umbrella\|\|Snowman
			\|----- align="center"
			!E01x
			\|Negative boxed exclamation mark\|\|Negative boxed question mark\|\|Envelope\|\|Cell phone\|\|Thickly-boxed + (touch calibration mark)\|\|Spades\|\|Diamonds\|\|Hearts\|\|Flowers\|\|Right arrow\|\|Left arrow\|\|Up arrow\|\|Down arrow\|\|Circled dot (like "your position" in smartphone maps)\|\|Camera\|\|Crossed-out square
			\|----- align="center"
			!E02x
			\|Spinner up-left\|\|Spinner up\|\|Spinner up-right\|\|Spinner right\|\|Spinner down-right\|\|Spinner down\|\|Spinner down-left\|\|Spinner left\|\|Large cross\|\|Boxed A (Pictochat room)\|\|Boxed B (Pictochat room)\|\|Boxed C (Pictochat room)\|\|Boxed D (Pictochat room)\|\|Negative boxed A (Automatic DS boot)\|\|Negative boxed M (Manual DS boot)\|\|Crossed-out square
			\|----- align="center"
			!E03x
			\|"P" (Pictochat logo)\|\|"I" (Pictochat logo)\|\|"C" (Pictochat logo)\|\|"T" (Pictochat logo)\|\|"H" (Pictochat logo)\|\|"A" (Pictochat logo)\|\|Crossed-out square\|\|Crossed-out square\|\|Crossed-out square\|\|Crossed-out square\|\|Crossed-out square\|\|Crossed-out square\|\|Crossed-out square\|\|Crossed-out square\|\|Boxed negative X (small letter)\|\|Boxed negative X (big bold letter)
			\|----- align="center"
			!E04x
			\|Power button (Wiimote)\|\|D-pad (Wiimote)\|\|A button (Wiimote)\|\|B button (Wiimote)\|\|Home button (Wiimote)\|\|Start button (Wiimote)\|\|Select button (Wiimote)\|\|1 button (Wiimote)\|\|2 button (Wiimote)\|\|Analog stick (Nunchuck)\|\|C button (Nunchuck)\|\|Z button (Nunchuck)\|\|a button (Classic)\|\|b button (Classic)\|\|x button (Classic)\|\|y button (Classic)
			\|----- align="center"
			!E05x
			\|Left analog stick (Classic)\|\|Right analog stick (Classic)\|\|L button (Classic)\|\|R button (Classic)\|\|ZL button (Classic)\|\|ZR button (Classic)\|\|Return (keyboard symbol)\|\|Space (keyboard symbol)\|\|Wii pointer\|\|Wii pointer "1"\|\|Wii pointer "2"\|\|Wii pointer "3"\|\|Wii pointer "4"\|\|Wii pointer dragging\|\|Wii pointer dragging "1"\|\|Wii pointer dragging "2"
			\|----- align="center"
			!E06x
			\|Wii pointer dragging "3"\|\|Wii pointer dragging "4"\|\|Wii pointer panning\|\|Wii pointer panning "1!\|\|Wii pointer panning "2"\|\|Wii pointer panning "3"\|\|Wii pointer panning "4"\|\|Wii logo\|\|Superscripr "er"\|\|Superscript "re"\|\|Superscript "e"\|\|Negative boxed question mark\|\|nothing\|\|nothing\|\|nothing\|\|nothing
			\|----- align="center"
			!E07x
			\|Boxed X\|\|Boxed negative X (Close button)\|\|Back\|\|Home\|\|Steps\|\|Play coin\|\|Video camera\|\|Analog stick (3DS)\|\|Power button (O3DS)\|\|D-pad up\|\|D-pad down\|\|D-pad left\|\|D-pad right\|\|D-pad vertical\|\|D-pad horizontal\|\|nothing
			\|}

			Table courtesy [https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/Character_reference/E000-EFFF Wikibooks]

Yellows8 at 05:16, 16 September 2015

2015-09-16T03:16:45Z

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	During system boot, the system-font is loaded by [[NS]] to LINEAR-memory(in the original 0x14000000 vmem region) which always gets allocated at SYSTEM_memregion+0. Due to it being located there, all of this is GPU accessible. The [[BCFNT]] is loaded from the font title for the system region into that memory. During loading, the font-data is modified: the magic-num at fontdata+0 is changed from "CFNT" to "CFNU", and all file offsets are converted to addresses in this allocated linearmem. Processes can get the sharedmem_handle+vaddr for mapping the sharedmem for this via [[NS and APT Services\|APT:GetSharedFont]].		During system boot, the system-font is loaded by [[NS]] to LINEAR-memory(in the original 0x14000000 vmem region) which always gets allocated at SYSTEM_memregion+0. Due to it being located there, all of this is GPU accessible. The [[BCFNT]] is loaded from the font title for the system region into that memory. During loading, the font-data is modified: the magic-num at fontdata+0 is changed from "CFNT" to "CFNU", and all file offsets are converted to addresses in this allocated linearmem. Processes can get the sharedmem_handle+vaddr for mapping the sharedmem for this via [[NS and APT Services\|APT:GetSharedFont]].

			With font-data title-version v0 for USA/EUR/JPN, the size of this entire sharedmem is 0x332000-bytes.

	Shared mem structure:		Shared mem structure:

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During system boot, the system-font is loaded by [[NS]] to LINEAR-memory(in the original 0x14000000 vmem region) which always gets allocated at SYSTEM_memregion+0. Due to it being located there, all of this is GPU accessible. The [[BCFNT]] is loaded from the font title for the system region into that memory. During loading, the font-data is modified: the magic-num at fontdata+0 is changed from "CFNT" to "CFNU", and all file offsets are converted to addresses in this allocated linearmem. Processes can get the sharedmem_handle+vaddr for mapping the sharedmem for this via [[NS and APT Services|APT:GetSharedFont]].

Shared mem structure:
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Offset
! Size
! Description
|-
| 0x0
| 0x80
| Header
|-
| 0x80
| Font data size
| The actual font data. There's also unknown data following the original decompressed font data.
|}

Header structure:
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Offset
! Size
! Description
|-
| 0x0
| 0x4
| Normally value 0x2?
|-
| 0x4
| 0x4
| Normally value 0x1?
|-
| 0x8
| 0x4
| Decompressed font data size.
|-
| 0xC
| 0x34
| Normally all-zero?
|}