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
