[9fans] UTF-8 font

[9fans] UTF-8 font

[Bao Cheng]

Hello 9fans,

I am using 9front, a fork of plan9 in my ThinkPad. I know that plan9 
supports unicode but I still find some of Chinese characters display 
funny. Is it a font issue or something?

Best wishes,
Cheng

Re: [9fans] UTF-8 font

[Steve Simon]

> Is it a font issue or something?

exactly.

It is rare to find a unicode font that has _very_ wide coverage,
though some plan9 fonts are better than others in this respect.

This is not somthing I have used much so hopefully someone will
chime in with font suggestions.

-Steve

Re: [9fans] UTF-8 font

[Skip Tavakkolian]

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couldn't you use ttf2subf to get some truetype fonts for the code set that
you need?



On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:

> > Is it a font issue or something?
>
> exactly.
>
> It is rare to find a unicode font that has _very_ wide coverage,
> though some plan9 fonts are better than others in this respect.
>
> This is not somthing I have used much so hopefully someone will
> chime in with font suggestions.
>
> -Steve
>
>

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Re: [9fans] UTF-8 font

[erik quanstrom]

On Tue Sep  2 02:47:03 EDT 2014, bc11@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn wrote:
> Hello 9fans,
>
> I am using 9front, a fork of plan9 in my ThinkPad. I know that plan9
> supports unicode but I still find some of Chinese characters display
> funny. Is it a font issue or something?

i would recommend cyberbit which is included with 9atom.  i'd be interested
in hearing your impressions of the characters as i don't speak chinese.

; echo $font
/lib/font/bit/cyberbit/mod14.font

you can copy it with the following commands

	srv -n -q tcp!atom.9atom.org atom &&
		mount $nflag /srv/atom /n/atom atom
	cd /lib/font/bit && mkdir cyberbit &&
		disk/mkfs -z 16000 -vkU -s /n/atta`{pwd} -d . <{echo +}

- erik