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I wonder how large must a font be to display all UTF8 characters... I'm also waiting for new emojis, they recently added more and more that can be used as icon

• dspillett 5y ago
  Take care using recently added Unicode entries, unless you have some control of your user-base and when they update or are providing a custom font that you know has those items represented. You could be giving out broken-looking UI to many if their setup does not interpret the newly assigned codes correctly.
• banana_giraffe 5y ago
  Opentype makes this impossible. A glyph has an index of a UINT16, so you can't fit all of the ~143k Unicode characters. There are some attempts at font families to cover the majority of characters. Like Noto ( https://fonts.google.com/noto/fonts https://fonts.google.com/noto/fonts ), broken out into different fonts for different regions. Or, Unifont's ( http://www.unifoundry.com/ http://www.unifoundry.com/ ) goal of gathering the first 65536 code points in one font, though it leaves a lot to be desired if you actually use it as a font.