Quoting Guillem Jover (2013-02-27 22:14:39) > On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 09:17:05 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes: > > > I think these should be covered somehow by fonts-freefont-ttf and > > > ttf-unifont. > > > > ttf-unifont did indeed cover Mongolian (Classic). Thank you! > > You're welcome, I also get bothered by this. :) > > > Alas, it's still missing some characters in Vietnamese (nôm). > > There's a note on the page that the sample "Includes Unicode 3.1 (or > > later) characters beyond Plane 0." > > > > Some poking around Wikipedia reveals that what this page is > > referring to is Chữ Nôm: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%E1%BB%AF_N%C3%B4m. I suspect the > > fonts I have installed have all of the borrowed Chinese characters > > but are missing some of the additional characters unique to Chữ Nôm. > > (It doesn't appear to be particularly widely used.) > > Right, I checked the URL you pointed out, and the unifont site seemed > to indicate it provides some glyphs for nôm, but was not sure if it > was complete, and found <http://nomfoundation.org/nom-tools/Nom-Font> > (from your URL), although I'm not sure about the license, so didn't > bother downloading it. Might be worth taking a look, and possibly > contacting the project for clarification or a possible relicense. I contacted a vietnamese friend of mine - Hong Phuc, the organiser of FossAsia - about this, and she will try locate a Free nôm font. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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