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Re: Fonts for all Unicode glyphs?



On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 06:49:10PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> Is there any remotely straightforward way, in Debian, to install font
> packages to explicitly satisfy the goal of "provide suitable glyphs to
> cover the entire Unicode character space"? ('unifont' looks like it
> would get me started, but not cover everything, and I'd prefer to use
> some of the more specific fonts where applicable anyway.)
> 
> If not, any idea(s) how to simplify or speed up the process of
> identifying appropriate font packages (or even font categories) on my
> own?

Interesting dilema.

I found these:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9834402/previewing-unicode-fonts-on-linux
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14027/what-fonts-are-good-for-unicode-glyphs

Maybe there are other hits which may help:
http://www.google.com/search?q=what+fonts+provide+glyphs+Linux

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