"Abdij Bhat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I want one font to be used across all languages. Is it possible? For > example, I want Tahoma to be used for all languages for all OS. > Does Tahoma support this?
It may be possible but it doesn't sound like a good idea - a font with proper support for all the modern scripts in the Unicode Standard would be *huge* - especially if it included variant CJK glyphs for both Japanese and Chinese and proper support for complex scripts (including Indic scripts and Arabic). Some Operating systems may not have support for complex script layout. Tahoma is a proprietory Microsoft font and unless you have a copy of Windows installed on the same machine it may not be legal to use it on another OS. Anyway Tahoma has support for Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Thai - but not other scripts. I think you are much better off to have different fonts for different Unicode ranges - While it makes some sense to put glyphs for several reasonably small scripts together in a single font, scripts, with a large glyph repertoire or scripts that have complex layout rules are better handled with separate fonts. Some languages which use different variants of the same script (e.g. Chinese & Japanese or Arabic & Urdu) may also need separate fonts for the same Unicode range. - Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
