GNU Unifont is a Unicode font collection with glyphs for all
visible Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane (the first 64K)
character code points and many more, with supporting utilities
to view, define, modify, and convert fonts.
For more information see the project home page:
https://unifoundry.com/unifont/
NOTE: Releases from 15.1 do not include Truetype format, only Opentype
format Unifont fonts, as previously announced.
As these fonts are bitmap glyphs rendered into modern font formats,
both formats should render the same glyphs.
All modern systems support both Opentype and Truetype format fonts,
so there should be few or no issues if releases provide only Opentype
format Unifont, which are less than half the file size of the Truetype
format.
A known issue with TrueType is Pango combining character rendering not
being fixed as the Pango maintainers want to support only OpenType.
If anyone encounters issues using the Opentype format Unifont,
please let us know so we can address any issues.
The following packages have been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution:
- unifont 17.0.03
- unifont-fonts 17.0.03
- unifont-viewer 17.0.03
For recent changes, see below, or after installation, read
/usr/share/doc/unifont/NEWS:
https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html
https://unifoundry.com/unifont/unifont-utilities.html
2025-11-01 17.0.03
font/plane00/unifont-base.hex:
- simplified U+3022 㢠Hangzhou Numeral Two
font/plane00/wqy.hex:
- modified U+887F (è¡¿) to be less similar to U+2561E (ð¥), used in the
Second round of simplified Chinese Characters.
- modified ideographs containing the "馬" (Horse) and "鳥" (Bird)
radicals to be more balanced: U+4B77, U+4B7C, U+4B7D, U+4B84, U+4B88,
U+99AD, U+99AF, U+99B0, U+99B1, U+99B2, U+99B4, U+99B7, U+99B8,
U+99B9, U+99BB, U+99BF, U+99C1, U+99C3, U+99C7, U+99CB, U+99CE,
U+99CF, U+99D0, U+99D2, U+99D3, U+99D4, U+99D6, U+99D7, U+99D8,
U+99DB, U+99DD, U+99E4, U+99E8, U+99E9, U+99EC, U+9A02, U+9A0F,
U+9CE6, U+9CE8, U+9CED, U+9CFD, U+9D03, U+9D15, U+9D24, U+9D2B,
U+9D3C, U+9D80, U+9D93, and U+9D95.
font/plane02/zh-plane02.hex, font/plane03/zh-plane03.hex:
- added
o 第ä¸æ¹ç°¡é«å表 (August 21, 1935~February 1936)
o Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (1956-1986)
o The simplified character list (1986-2013), including simplified
radicals and Chinese characters used for descriptions and annotations
in official documents
o The second list of the Second round of simplified Chinese characters
(not officially implemented)
o Plane 2 code points added: U+2265D, U+2275D, U+22A73, U+23143,
U+233B7, U+23519, U+23C76, U+24D52, U+25081, U+2561E, U+2563D,
U+25FBA, U+26B38, U+26BB4, U+27E89, U+282CC, U+28473, U+2868D,
U+28C44, U+2974E, U+2A8C8, U+2ABC8, U+2B0F5, U+2B124, U+2B209,
U+2B2A5, U+2B35A, U+2B4F1, U+2B52D, U+2BC06, U+2C329, U+2C3BF,
U+2C4E0, U+2C728, U+2C94E, U+2CBA2, U+2CBA6, U+2CE9E, U+2CF65, and
U+2E5FB.
o Plane 3 code points added: U+304BC, U+304CA, U+305E3, U+30B38,
U+30C1F, U+30C24, U+30C2C, U+30F62, U+32064, and U+322A6.
- modified U+300DD.
- modified U+20509 to conform to the updated form in additions to the
latest CJK Unified IdeographsâExtension J characters and
simultaneously added G-source (mainland China) glyphs for some
characters in other extension blocks.
- modified ideographs containing the "馬" (Horse) and "鳥" (Bird)
radicals to be more balanced: U+29FA1, U+29FA7, U+29FE1, U+2A00A,
U+2A02C, U+2A02E, and U+2A068.
- added the glyphs required by the Specification of Common Modern
Chinese Character Components and Components Names
(ç°ä»£å¸¸ç¨åé¨ä»¶åé¨ä»¶å称è§è), published in mainland China in
2009:
U+20094, U+20541, U+215DC, U+223A8, U+23942, U+248E9, U+26222,
U+268DE, and U+26954.
man/hex2otf.1:
- changed "\fC" to "\f(CR" for better nroff portability.
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