Le dimanche 27 mai 2007 à 10:58 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit : > On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 12:19 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > > > A very crude way to assess a font is to upload it on > > http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/font/custom.htm read the glyph > > count and look at the glyph matrix. A much better indicator would be the > > language support coverage matrix DejaVu publishes with every release but > > its generator needs fontconfig sources and fonts in sfd format (IIRC) so > > it's not useful for the average artists. We really need a tester tool > > that would do the same on any on-disk ttf/otf font. > > > > Anyway, some result for F7 common FLOSS fonts: > > - DejaVu Sans/Serif: 4538/1939 > > - DejaVU LGC Sans/Serif: 3532/1881 > > - Linux Libertine: 2274 > > - Gentium: 1699 > > - Liberation Sans/Serif: 668/661 > > - Vera Sans/Serif: 268 > > Please, don't fall in the "coverage rathole" as Owen likes to call it. > There are more important qualities of a font that covering as much as > possible of Unicode.
That's a very US-centric view and one reason we almost had a Greek revolt a few releases back. I suppose I should make pretty labels like Owen. "redneck guetto" comes to mind. -- Nicolas Mailhot
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