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What does "Unicode" mean in "Unicode font"? From what I can see it only has a handful (ascii?) characters. Edit: after some testing it seems that "unscii-16-fu

What does "Unicode" mean in "Unicode font"? From what I can see it only has a handful (ascii?) characters. Edit: after some testing it seems that "unscii-16-full" is the one (and only one?) that supports some Chinese characters, but it's unusable because glyphs stack on each other.. (screenshot: https://files.catbox.moe/262742.png https://files.catbox.moe/262742.png )

thristian 8y ago
It means that it supports characters outside the basic 127 ASCII or 256 ISO-8859-1 characters, like the Box Drawing[1] and Block Elements[2] characters defined in Unicode. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Drawing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Drawing [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Drawing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Drawing
- yesenadam 8y ago
  [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements
- fireattack 8y ago
  But it's still very far away from "Unicode". From my understanding you should at least have majority of Unicode glyphs to claim so. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_Unicode_typefaces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_Unicode_typefaces
JdeBP 8y ago
I suspect that you are blaming the wrong font for that, because I suspect that the kanji/hanja/hanzi glyphs in question come from GNU Unifont. I myself overlay K16-1990 over GNU Unifont for better-appearing characters. * http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/user-vt-screenshots.html#Unicode http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/user-vt-screenshots.html#Uni...
- fireattack 8y ago
  Your link shows it should be able to display these Chinese characters correctly though. The TTF file I downloaded from this website cannot.
  - JdeBP 8y ago
    The image shows K16-1990 overlaid upon GNU Unifont, precisely because the former has better glyphs than the latter (had at the time). It does not show that Unscii should be able to do this at all.

thristian 8y ago

It means that it supports characters outside the basic 127 ASCII or 256 ISO-8859-1 characters, like the Box Drawing[1] and Block Elements[2] characters defined in Unicode. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Drawing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Drawing [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Drawing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Drawing

yesenadam 8y ago
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements
fireattack 8y ago
But it's still very far away from "Unicode". From my understanding you should at least have majority of Unicode glyphs to claim so. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_Unicode_typefaces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_Unicode_typefaces

JdeBP 8y ago

I suspect that you are blaming the wrong font for that, because I suspect that the kanji/hanja/hanzi glyphs in question come from GNU Unifont. I myself overlay K16-1990 over GNU Unifont for better-appearing characters. * http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/user-vt-screenshots.html#Unicode http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/user-vt-screenshots.html#Uni...

fireattack 8y ago
Your link shows it should be able to display these Chinese characters correctly though. The TTF file I downloaded from this website cannot.
- JdeBP 8y ago
  The image shows K16-1990 overlaid upon GNU Unifont, precisely because the former has better glyphs than the latter (had at the time). It does not show that Unscii should be able to do this at all.