Re: TECH: Unicode ranges in various fonts (was Re: ML4)

John Cowan wrote:
> Isaac Penzev scripsit:
>
> Titus Cyberbit (not to be confused with Bitstream Cyberbit) has broad
> coverage and is free for non-commercial use.  The Monospace font by
> George Williams is out of date, but it is monospace and GPL.
> See http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/tituut.asp and
> http://bibliofile.mc.duke.edu/gww/fonts/Monospace/index.html .
Thanks for that (and thanks, too, for putting a space between the URL
and the full stop. It saved me almost a second's toil. No, I'm serious).

> To whomever asked about controlling the search order Mozilla browsers
> use: There's probably a way to set a preference in user.js, but I
That was me, and that's what I thought too, but I don't see anything
obvious there.

> haven't been able to find out what it is.  I wish I could, because
> I get annoyed by fullwidth Cyrillic all the time (from Japanese font).
That's what bugs me too... in particular it makes it very hard to see
word boundaries. Though I didn't know it was from a Japanese font, which
I have no need for (sure, it looks nice, but readability of Cyrillic
is a higher priority :)

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