I have to distribute a legacy application for Windows that unfortunately does not support Font Linking, but is supposed to support many language cultures, including all east Asian languages. The perfect font for that purpose would be to use Unicode MS, which is part of Microsoft Office, which is not part of my target systems. So I would have to obain a license for Arial Unicode, which is currently no option. So I am looking for a free Unicode font, that covers the same range that Arial Unicode MS does, but which may be freely distributed, even in a closed-sorce commercial project. Is there any such font available at all? Closed as off-topic by, Jan 31 '15 at 17:55 This question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close gave this specific reason:.
'Questions asking us to recommend or find a book, tool, software library, tutorial or other off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. Instead, and what has been done so far to solve it.' – Artjom B., rene, gunr2171, rkhb, Synchro If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the, please. The Code2000 font has almost full coverage of the Basic Multilingual Plane (much larger than that of Arial Unicode MS, though perhaps without some of its characters in its modern versions). It is available e.g. However, there are several issues with it:. Its status is unclear.
It used to be shareware, with a registration fee of $5 or so, but the author’s web site is down, and it is not clear whether it was he who made the font available at SourceForge as freeware. It’s a serif font, which might not suit your overall visual design. It’s not typographically ambitious (to put it diplomatically).
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It has been designed to work with font smoothing and may look like crap without it (not much of a problem these days I guess). Yet, it seems to best match the description. There are many other fonts that might be considered, see, but they have more serious drawbacks for most uses (e.g., monospace design or bitmap format or limited character repertoire). Found this question when I was looking for info about the distributability of the. Assuming the answer there is correct about the licensing terms, then I think the Droid fonts might be a good answer for this question. Keep in mind though - there can't ever be a single font that covers all east Asian languages accurately since a lot of code points are shared between the languages, yet speakers of each language write some of them a little differently. Droid Sans Fallback has an especially broad spread of east Asian codepoints and according, appears to use Chinese for the unified code points that clash.
In addition, Google is also working on an entire font family called intended to 'support all the world’s languages'. Of course, that's a whole family of fonts, not just a single font. The collection of fonts cover numerous code points, and are licensed under a very permissive license. (IANAL) Not sure what its coverage of East Asian languages are, but there are some other fonts out there for that.
In particular, may be helpful. I'd also do a, as there are many many more choices out there.
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Be sure to check the licenses of anything you decide to use. Last, why not just use the fonts on the system itself? If it's a Windows application, then the user should have Arial Unicode installed. (Or is this what you mean by, 'does not support Font Linking'?).
Using this file: and these Unicode C0 Control Special characters = ''. Monospace fonts used: DejaVu Sans Mono FreeMono Inconsolata Everson Mono Source Code Pro Fira Mono TerminalVector-Mostly symbols monospaced Problem: If I used any Monospaced Fonts in the Notepad, Wordpad, or most Windows Edit Control (Text box) or Text Editors that use this control, Like MS Visual Studio. The fonts all seem and appear to change but the characters can't be represented properly and a square box appears for many characters, the actual font barely changes in form specially for fonts that use symbols instead of characters.
I believe the Native windows monospaced family of font like the Consolas and Courier New are being used as legacy fall-back fonts inadvertently and not letting the actual fonts in-use function properly. I'm Using Windows 10 Version 10.0.14393 Exception: If I used 3rd party tools that have there own Text Editor component and there dedicated rendering engine for text viewing all the fonts work properly in those dedicated separate tools but not for the Windows Edit Control dependant tools and GDI based Text rendering. For Example: Notepad or any scintilla based editor works and so does ErgoEmacs, web browsers like Chrome, Firefox(an older version) and a Terminal emulation tool called Mintty, along with Putty all render the fonts properly. It also functions properly when a plain unicode font or a non-monospaced font is used. But the problem is specifically with monospace fonts. I was able to reproduce the problem on a fresh reinstall of windows. Please let me know If you can help, Thanks.
Hi, Vanessa This really is not that complex, Just because most people don't know what an Edit Control is; Does not make this Issue complex. This is very simple issue and reproducible by anyone, all you have to do is google any of the font's mentioned, install it and Bamm!, open the file provided or copy and past the C0 control characters in quotation in Notepad and Wordpad or any Text Editor(Edit Control based) and there is the problem. I don't get how this is complex? Every section of windows that uses the edit control & GDI has this problem with monospace fonts, and only microsoft can patch this! I don't get it, this affects all user, advanced or not.
Can we keep this post open?, I posted the same on Microsoft TechNet Forum, but ultimately this is a patch.