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Proper unicode font support is like 1.2GiB (noto, but I haven't found any complete unicode font collections that are significantly smaller). There's bloat for s
by r14c 9mo ago
Proper unicode font support is like 1.2GiB (noto, but I haven't found any complete unicode font collections that are significantly smaller). There's bloat for sure, but supporting universal text is one that I think is not a waste of space.
- Gibbon1 9mo agoFor English capitalization is a trivial problem. I think for Hungarian or something similar the rule set is like 6mb.
- 1313ed01 9mo agoMaybe not proper support, but when I tried NetBSD recently my entire installation was around 1.5 GB on disk and seemed to handle Unicode well enough for me (for languages I care about). Not doubting some more packages would be needed to support every language, but happy everything wasn't installed by default.
- r14c 9mo agoYe by proper i mean being able to render unicode in any language without tofu. I get that not everyone needs that, but its a reasonable thing to have on your disk in 2025.
- syberant 9mo agoUnsure if this is useful to you but have you heard about GNU Unifont? It’s not as nice and comes with some asterisks but damn it’s very compact. I first read about it via this blog post: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/04/banish-the-%ef%bf%bd-with-unifont/ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/04/banish-the-%ef%bf%bd-with-u...
- WindyMiller 9mo agoTo be fair it wouldn't really be doing its job if it didn't come with any asterisks