On 10/29/06, Karl Guertin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 10/28/06, Alexander C. Gaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you can suggest the most complete Unicode font (the used languages, I
don't care about math symbols, but definitely care about *all* used languages
today). I seriously switch through all languages in a week's worth and definitely
three character sets a day, I'd hate having to change fonts based on what I need
to edit right then.
>
> Or, if I can use Windows fonts, please let me know how.
I hit that page on ubuntu linux using bitstream vera [1] and the
coverage is decent.
It's missing Old Irish, Gothic, Burmese, Mongolian, Tibetan and has a
few characters missing from Braille, Turkish (Ottoman), Urdu, Pashto,
Vietnamese (nôm). The rest have glyphs but I have no clue whether
they're correct or not.
[1] http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/edgy/x11/ttf-bitstream-vera
Karl, I think you are mistaken. Although Bitstream Vera Sans Mono is a
decent font, it does not have better effect than Courier New in this
case. It contains 269 glyphs, while Courier New contains 1318 glyphs.
When using Courier New, I can display ASCII, Latin1, Greek, Cyrillic,
Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish, as well as Chinese and Japanese (NSimsun
seems automatically used), text at the same time.
Alex, if you cannot display Chinese while choosing Courier New, you
may try setting your default locale (Control Panel > Regional and
Language Options > Advanced > Language for non-Unicode programs) to
Chinese (PRC). It should work. And then you will be able to edit
English, French, Greek, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic
simultaneously.
Best regards,
Yongwei
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Wu Yongwei
URL: http://wyw.dcweb.cn/
