Re: Um...help with unicode?
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <boud@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 2, 2002, 13:51 |
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On Saturday 02 November 2002 12:59, Joe wrote:
> Is there such a thing as a Generic unicode font?
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> I'm just curious...as I need to add some diacritical marks which don't have
> individual characters...and I kind of want to be able to see them...
I think you want a _complete_ Unicode font, not a generic one.
That's hard: there's no single font that contains all of any
of the various versions of the Unicode standard. Not too mention
that a single, simple glyph for every codepoint wouldn't be enough:
many scripts use different shapes for glyps according to their place
in a word. And Unicode doesn't encode (all of) them.
Anyway, if you might want to try the following fonts:
Arial Unicode (don't know where to get that)
GNU Unifont (czyborra.com/unifont/)
X11's misc fixed (in you XFree86 distribution)
Or you could use pfaedit (pfaedit.sf.net) to add the necessary to any font you
like. Or even, what would be even better, decide to cooperate with
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/freefont/
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Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org
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