Re: [libreoffice-users] about unicode characters:

On 03/15/2016 11:23 AM, toki wrote:
> On 15/03/2016 13:16, Tim wrote:
>
> > do not want to include the "full set" of the available characters.
> A font with all Unicode glyphs in it, would contain 2^17 different
> glyphs, but current font format definitions restrict the size of a font
> to 2^16 different glyphs.
>
> > Arial Unicode MS seems to me to have the most Unicode characters
> There are just over 50,000 glyphs in Arial, whilst Unifont has just
> under 60,000 glyphs.
>
> IOW, if you absolutely positively have to have a pan-unicode font, then
> Unifont is the way to go.
>
> jonathon
In the Synaptic Package Manager, it shows that I have the Unifont 
installed, but I do not see a font named as that in my .font folder.  I 
wonder where the font was re-installed to, since I had it installed via 
the package manager already, but could not find the name "Unifont" listed.

When I went online to the Unifont "project", I downloaded the full 12 
MB  version TTF file.  When I looked at it in the font viewer, it was 
very "boxy" - actually each character is made up with boxes. Both the 
Web site and the info in the package manager stated the boxiness of the 
font.

I still wonder what is the best looking unicode font with somewhere near 
the number of characters/glyphs that Arial Unicode has.

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