On 2002.02.15, at 06:36, Markus Kuhn wrote:
Markus
(XFree86 -misc-fixed-* font maintainer)
Oh yes here comes Mr. Font!
You will find that many of the -misc-fixed-*-iso10646-1 fonts have
better coverage than Unifont. In particular, the fonts 6x13, 8x13, 9x15,
9x18, 10x20 cover the MES-3 repertoire of Unicode 3.0 completely, which
covers all IPA glyphs. Unifont doesn't and it's combining characters
won't work with xterm either, which is particularly important for IPA.
Application-level Unicode support these days have significantly
improved; Most popular web browsers do support and many popular text
editors too. The problem is definitely font.
I wonder if there are free, scalable 'reference font' that contains
all major languages. So far, -misc-fixed-*-iso10646-1 seems the only
one that comes close to that but it is not scalable. MS Arial comes
close too but you need Win(2k|XP). Hiragino on MacOS X is beautiful but
missing too many non-Japanese fonts to be a reference (besides it is not
free).
I want for example
* Reference Serif Font (Times Unicode?)
* Reference Serif Font (Helvetica Unicode?)
* Reference Fixed Width (Misc TT? Courier Unicode? Monaco Unicode?)
that are free and open. I know both Apple and MS have enough to make
such fonts. I wonder why they don't contribute in this simple way (One
of the reasons that makes me doubt how serious they are about
Unicode/ISO10646)....
Dan the Man with Too Many *.(ttf|ttc|otf|bdf) to browse
