There is no such thing as a UTF-8 encoded font. A font with a Unicode cmap can be used by any software to render Unicode data from any source in any format. It is up to the application to request rendering of characters in a datatype supported by the platform, whether or not that is the application's internal character format, or the format of input data.
Your problem with '\' is that MS Mincho is trying to be both a Unicode font and a Japanese font. This has resulted in an incorrect code point assignment, evidently in a convoluted and (IMNSHO) misguided attempt at backward compatibility. The font should have the correct code point to glyph mapping, and the application should know what character set it is asking the system to render, but this is not always the case today. Although MS Mincho is supposed to be a Unicode font, it improperly assigns the yen sign to code point U+005C Reverse Solidus. The same problem exists in MS Gothic and MS PGothic. Microsoft's Korean-style fonts including Batang, BatangChe, Dotum, DotumChe, Gulim, GulimChe, Gungsuh, and GungsuhChe have the won currency symbol at this code point. I don't understand the problem with ')', which is the same in ASCII and MS Mincho. Microsoft fonts that cover the CJK Unified block and also have correct glyphs for '\' include Arial Unicode MS MingLiU PMingLiU SimHei SimSun -----Original Message----- From: Tim Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 8:42 AM To: Martin Duerst Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: UTF-16 -> UTF-8 Martin, Thanks - MS Mincho looks interesting. What I found, though, was that some of the punctuation doesn't appear as expected. For example a ')' appears as a centralised dot and a '\' appears as a Yen symbol. Not terribly good for writing PERL ! Also - the glyphs looked slightly different : do you know if it's a big- or little-endian UTF-16 font or a UTF-8 font ? Ideally I'd like to use a UTF-8 font. Apparently there's an MS Gothic ... Thanks, Tim Martin Duerst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 17:25 01/11/20 +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > > PS: Does anyone know of - even an odd looking It would look really, really, odd. >- Fixed pitch Unicode font > > including Western European, CJK, Cyrillic and Greek glyphs (ie: most Left > > to Right data) ? It's not for an end-user, it's for techies like myself, > > so it doesn't need to be brilliant, just more distinctive than a set of > > squares or blocks ! > >I think MS Mincho (that came with Japanese language pack for MSIE 3.0, I >think) is fixed-width and has Western, Cyrillic, and Greek glyphs -- >and, of course, a large assortment of CJK. But I've only used it for CJK >so I can't say for sure. Yes, some font covering Japanese would be a good start. You would have to copy the glyphs used for fullwith ASCII to also be used for plain ASCI I, and then add whatev Get personalised at My Yahoo!.
