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They don't. There are multiple truetype fonts involved: * The Standard Unifont TTF Download: unifont-12.0.01.ttf (12 Mbytes) * Glyphs above the Unicode Basic
by jfk13 8y ago
They don't. There are multiple truetype fonts involved:
* The Standard Unifont TTF Download: unifont-12.0.01.ttf (12 Mbytes)
* Glyphs above the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane: unifont_upper-12.0.01.ttf (1 Mbyte)
* Unicode ConScript Unicode Registry (CSUR) PUA Glyphs: unifont_csur-12.0.01.ttf (1 Mbyte)
(from http://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html http://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html). And note that unifont_upper only seems to cover plane 1 and plane 14 stuff; they haven't attempted to tackle the plane 2 CJK repertoire.
- TheRealPomax 8y agoThat is really not what this article claims, though. It claims "It contains /every/ Unicode glyph in one single file!".
- jfk13 8y agoSo it does - though later under "Use on the web", it turns out that it's primarily talking about the BMP, and higher-plane characters will require another file. (It doesn't seem to notice the lack of support for plane-2 CJK at all.) The article title "Banish the � with Unifont" is also misleading, actually. � is U+FFFD, the REPLACEMENT CHARACTER that typically indicates an encoding error or binary garbage; it's not the same thing as the missing-glyph symbol (often a simple box, though it may vary) that generally appears when font support for a valid character is lacking.