Comments on: It doesn't do Tibetan

It doesn't do Tibetan

Pretty_Generic — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:25:02 -0800

Sick of ▯? Try Code2000.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:18:34 -0800

Perfect for all your Ogham typesetting needs. This is pretty cool.

By: shepd

shepd — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:24:42 -0800

Can someone tell me what language uses pictures of telephones, lightning bolts, and a caduceus? Because, you know, I'm wondering why they have a specific unicode character instead of being dingbats? :-D

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:32:35 -0800

Dingbats are bunk.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:43:04 -0800

Dingbats are bunk. That's the best sentence I'll see all day, and I don't even know why.

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:55:12 -0800

It's like a weeping syzergy of blebs.

By: mexican

mexican — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:59:11 -0800

I kind of like the ☏. ☀, ☁, ☂, and ☃ are also personal favorites. I kind wish people would use what unicode provides us more often. For example: I think my ♀ is a ☭.

By: Zurishaddai

Zurishaddai — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 06:34:28 -0800

I just reinstalled this and remembered why I'd uninstalled it. If you use Code2000 for a continuous ancient Greek text in MS Word, there is a TON of whitespace between every character (equal to an actual space character). I've never seen this with any other font. Something's buggy. I guess they're more interested in those "exotic" Unicode characters as individual pictures (the characters are decently well-designed; no italics though). Didn't occur to them to test for the strange case that someone would wish to read books written in telephone-dingbat-hieroglyphics. If you want a Unicode font with generous provision of languages, actually designed for texts and reading, have a look at Gentium.

By: Zurishaddai

Zurishaddai — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:52:28 -0800

I was being a bit parochial with Gentium (turns out it's really only good for Greek and Latin, tho it's got tons of diacritics, IPA, etc.). But here's a decent set of fonts (FreeSerif, FreeSans, FreeMono) that supports Cyrillic (all or most of range plus Komi letters), Ethiopic, Greek (including polytonic), Hebrew, Latin, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Thaana.

By: Zurishaddai

Zurishaddai — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:56:48 -0800

Also Titus Cyberbit (Arabic script (Arabic, Balochi, Kashmiri, Kirghiz, Ottoman Turkish, Persian, Punjabi Shahmukhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range plus Komi letters), Ethiopic, Georgian (Mkhedruli & Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Ogham, Runic, Thaana, Vietnamese)