Quoth Aaron Toponce on Thursday, 12 May 2011: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 04:08:24PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > I suspect the font I'm using is lacking support for the line graphics, > > and the driver for the screen is helpfully outputting an ASCII > > representation of the 3 UTF-8 bytes which code up the line graphic code. > > This is just an FYI based on personal experience, so take it as you will, > but I've personally found the following fonts to have good overall Unicode > support for my needs (your needs might be different): > > 0) DejaVu > 1) Liberation > 2) Courier > > Some fonts that I have found lack good (if any at all) Unicode support are: > > 0) Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Constantia, Consolas and Corbel > 1) Bitstream > 2) Most standard "free" fonts installed by default > > I was surprised that the Vista fonts were as lacking as they were. They're > essentially just Latin, Greek and Cyrillic fonts, which is disappointing. I > would expect more from a major organization with deep pockets. Awards or no > awards, they are seriously lacking. > > I prefer DejaVu for my font rendering almost everywhere. It's clean, > supports a substantial number of glyphs, is updated frequently, and is > licensed under a free license. > > Anyway, thought I would share. > > -- > . o . o . o . . o o . . . o . > . . o . o o o . o . o o . . o > o o o . o . . o o o o . o o o
+1 on DejaVu. For the unusual unicode glyphs, I use Code2000 as a backup font. But line-drawing characters are included in DejaVu. -- .O. | Sterling (Chip) Camden | http://camdensoftware.com ..O | sterl...@camdensoftware.com | http://chipsquips.com OOO | 2048R/D6DBAF91 | http://chipstips.com
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