amber_lux's Journal: Eeek! I am being assimilated.

Cloud cover: 95%

I just found out that there is one item that microsoft makes that I actually like. I did not know that they had it in them.

The item: A font: Lucinda Sans Unicode to be precise. I have it on my linux box, and thought that it was just one of those freebie fonts that everybody gives away.

I use it most of the time, because I like the typeface. And the fact that I can write in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew writing systems, without changing fonts. [ Granted, in OpenOffice there is a thing to tell OOo to switch to an Asian writing system..]

Between MS UI Gothic, Lucinda Sans Unicode and Enochian, my font requirements are pretty well covered. If I need others, Dante.de probably has them. They are not Unicode, though. :-(

I will not repeat my earlier Unicode rant. Though doing so would be in good /. tradition.

I did find the Code2000 font, which appears to be fairly complete. Have not yet installed it. Then there is also Ariel, which has 58K character, and is Unicode 4.0. Now can I find one font that covers the 128K characters of Unicode 4.

I was reading FAQ about Font's earlier today. It has not been updated since 14 August 1996. Matt dropped it, and nobody else has picked it up. That is a six year old FAQ, and the age shows. There is this one on UTF-8 which is more useful than Matts. Still didn't point me a comprehensive font, though. Czyborra.com is almost as comprehensive, and has allegedly Unicode 3.0 compliant fonts.

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Amber