1 June 2019: GNU Unifont 12.1.02 is now available. This is a major release.
Unifont provides fonts with a glyph for each printable code point in the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane, as well as wide coverage of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (Unicode Plane 1) and some ConScript Unicode Registry (CSUR) and Under CSUR (UCSUR) glyphs. The new Japanese unifont_jp TrueType version also includes the 303 kanji from JIS X 0213 that are in Unicode Plane 2. The Unifont package includes TrueType fonts for all of these ranges, and BDF and PCF fonts for the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane. There is also a specialized PSF font for using GNU APL in console mode on GNU/Linux systems. This release introduces a new Japanese version of the TrueType font, unifont_jp, which contains over 10,000 kanji from the public domain JIS X 0213 BDF font Jiskan16, to replace the ideographs in the default Unifont font files. Devanagari and Bengali glyphs have also been redrawn with narrower consonants, for improved appearance with superimposed vowel marks. More information about this mapping is at http://unifoundry.com/japanese/index.html. The web page for this project is https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/unifont/. You can download the latest version from GNU mirror sites, accessible at: https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/unifont/unifont-12.1.02/ or if that fails, https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/unifont/unifont-12.1.02/ or, as a last resort, ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/unifont/unifont-12.1.02/ In addition to the Unifont package's new glyphs, the unibmp2hex.c program has been modified to handle a bitmap glyph image that was saved in RGB color space after editing, converting it back to monochrome for conversion. Full details are in the ChangeLog file. Enjoy! Paul Hardy GNU Unifont Maintainer -- If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
