[Cuis-dev] Unicode Truetype coverage

[Hilaire Fernandes]

Hi Ken,

I will need to address the font issue for DrGeo. In Pharo version I was 
using two fonts: UnDotum ttf file (for Korean) and the font wqy-microhei 
in ttc format (for other languages). The later seems to be an aggregate 
format for several fonts. Supported by FreeType Pharo plugin but not by 
Cuis. I just learn that when I tried to use it with Cuis.

Then at load time, depending on the host locale I was using one font or 
the other one to have a better language coverage. It is a bit waste as 
most OS come with fonts files...

May be I will have to generalize this approach with more fonts, better 
with host fonts, but I a bit complicate.

The Unifont your are referring seems to be pure bitmap, not nice looking 
but still useful indeed. I have looked at it in the past.

Hilaire

[1] https://github.com/anthonyfok/fonts-wqy-microhei


Le 15/08/2022 à 16:04, ken.dickey--- via Cuis-dev a écrit :
> I was looking at
> https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/EnhancedText/blob/master/Unicode/utf8sampler.txt 
>
> (attached) but did not find a font in Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/TrueTypeFonts 
> which displayed all the characters.
>
> All display fine in my web browser.
>
> There is an open source GNU Unifont which has excellent coverage.
>
> https://www.unifoundry.com/pub/unifont/unifont-14.0.04/font-builds/unifont-14.0.04.ttf 
>
>
> This is also useful as a backup font when a character is lacking in a 
> selected font.
>
> Details at
> https://www.unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html
>
> I think this would be a useful addition to 
> Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/TrueTypeFonts/
>
> $0.02,
> -KenD

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