The Droid font family consists of Droid Sans, Droid Sans Mono and Droid Serif: You often only have to look at Extended Braces, to see the font and application falling flat on its face, with symbol characters not lining up properly.Īdd to that the applications often leave gaps between characters or between lines, making characters 'fuzzy' from over use of scaling and anti-aliasing in the rendering, or not implementing the combining properities for the unicode block " Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols U+20D0 - U+20FF" and you see the newer fonts are basically a sorry mess!īasically XTerms, and X-Window "fixed" font (as above) seemed to have put in the time and thought put into making the font work properly as a whole.īig thanks to Markus Kuhn for such a great effort!įor my notes from researching this see.* Unlike other sans fonts, the capital letter I retains its serifs, which is also present in Noto Sans. The Graphics and Mathematical Blocks for example often do not work with character extensions across multiple lines.
But they mostly suffer when you simply want a fixed-width font that really is FIXED-WIDTH! And while they implement a larger range of glyphs, including he latest emoji. I have tried to use the newer, GTK and Truetype unicode fonts.
Noto sans mono install#
The ONLY standard install font I have ever found that works with a good range of unicode blocks encoded is.
Noto sans mono full#
Full width unicode letters were not exactly 2 ascii chars wide.Kanji were not exactly 2 ascii chars wide.**IPA Gothic : The "\" symbol displays as a *NotoSansMCJR : Full name is "Noto Sans Mono CJK JP Regular" (If you are crazy like me and want to program with Japanese variable names.)ġ that fit all of my criteria for programming: Chart Key: But as noted above, don't count on correct workings of complex scripts or typography. Still, if you're only looking for glyph support: See also Michael Kaplan's take on this: Arial Unicode MS effectively. The preferred way is actually to let the rendering engine sort out script support for fonts and not try to cram it all into a single font. As a fallback mechanism, but never as a first choice. It's a major undertaking and as such it's not surprising that pretty much the only fonts covering large portions of Unicode are last-resort fonts, intended to be used when no other font exists to display something. Remember that for the font to work other things must be in place as well: properly defined diacritics support (so combining accents actually appear above/below the base characters and not somewhere next to them), precomposed glyphs for some scripts so the rendering engine can use them properly, this includes Arabic and and Indic scripts.
Also it's a common misconception that a single font for as many scripts as possible is a Good Thing™.
Noto sans mono code#
However, there can't be a single font covering most of Unicode, as OpenType is limited to 65536 glyphs and there are more code points assigned so far. And enough of Latin to support most European languages. Nearly every font nowadays covers at least Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
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