From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>, grfgguvf@gmail.com References: <20051202184050.9D2DB18AE1A@dexter-peak.quanstro.net> <20051202192745.1D81E18AE1A@dexter-peak.quanstro.net> <8413367b0512030337i5ea88effkef50e5756b6c269e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: <8413367b0512030337i5ea88effkef50e5756b6c269e@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] p9p acme startup fonts. Message-Id: <20051203142251.14EC418AE27@dexter-peak.quanstro.net> Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 08:22:51 -0600 Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: b6a609ca-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 what's wrong with the greek? i do not have microsoft unicode fonts converted for use with p9p, but i do have cyberbit. all the greek glyphs that appeared in side-by-side terminals ; font = $PLAN9/font/code2000/code2000.16.font 9term & ; font = $PLAN9/font/cyberbit/code2000.16.font 9term & for each with this script ; grep GREEK UnicodeData.txt | awk -F';' 'length($1)==4 {printf("\\u%s %s %s\n", $1, $1, $2);}' | uconv were the same. cyberbit was missing all the combined greek characters, though. code 2000 has them. could you send me some of the codepoints from the japanese example so i can check those, too? are there any unicode fonts out there that offer full coverage from \u0000 to \uffff that aren't super ugly? code2000 at least has allmost all symbols and arrows. and looks okay. (uconv just converts \uXXXX → unicode codepoint XXXX.) - erik writes | | > ; echo $font | > /home/quanstro/plan9/font/code2000/code2000.14.font | > | > (code2000 provides much better unicode coverage than pelm. and is | > readable in smaller sizes.) | | The problem with Code2000 is that it's designer doesn't know the | languages he's making the glyphs for. As a consequence, many glyphs | are just "wrong". | | For example: | http://www.travelphrases.info/gallery/samples/BitstreamCyberbit__Japanese.gif | http://www.travelphrases.info/gallery/samples/Code2000__Japanese.gif | (see the first (left) glyph in the bottom line) | | Or: | http://www.travelphrases.info/gallery/samples/ArialUnicodeMS__GreekPoly.gif | http://www.travelphrases.info/gallery/samples/Code2000__GreekPoly.gif | (also the first character in the bottom line)