RE: [libreoffice-users] A toolbar option that makes it easier to type using unicode

Samiur wrote:

> Right now, there are countless Unicode fonts but only Microsoft
Unicode MS that's publicly
available.

I have no idea what you mean by "only Arial Unicode Microsoft that is
publicly available" means.
As a Pan-Unicode font, it is still playing catchup with Code2000 --
which is stuck at Unicode 5.2, due to no maintenance since at least 2011.

In terms of ubiquitousness, Google's Noto font family looks better, and
provides far more extensive coverage of Unicode than anything from
Microsoft.
The first major problem with Noto is that is stuck on Unicode 6.1.
Unicode 9.0 is slated for Phase 3, whenever that begins.
The second, and potentially more serious issue with Noto is that it is
neither correct, nor comprehensive, in its support of CJKV. Furthermore,
correct, comprehensive CJKV support
is not planned.

(Using roughly 1,000 glyphs in the private plane, an individual or
organization could construct a private IME/font combination that
correctly constructs and displays
any glyph in CJKV, regardless of its in/formal inclusion in the Unicode
specification.)

> For users of different scripts and languages, they need to install extra fonts. 

Regardless of provided fonts, users will install extra fonts, either for
utilitarian reasons
(fonts don't contain required glyphs), or aesthetic reasons (the
provided fonts, at best, are uglier than hell.)

> Putting in all free unicode fonts in the package will make it easier to type in non-Western 
> European characters. 

IMEs have far more to do with the ease of using non Western writing
systems, that fonts, and what they contain, or more commonly, fail to
contain.

> You don't need to buy extra fonts 

For some parts of Unicode 9.0, there are no FLOSS fonts.

> and have the ability to select from multiple unicode fonts that support a certain range.

This would be a useful tool.

jonathon







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