From nobody Tue Jan 17 17:51:32 2023 X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4NxGfj5cprz2sttS for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:51:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from george+freebsd@m5p.com) Received: from mailhost.m5p.com (mailhost.m5p.com [74.104.188.4]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "m5p.com", Issuer "R3" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4NxGfh5KgBz3QvS for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:51:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from george+freebsd@m5p.com) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of george+freebsd@m5p.com designates 74.104.188.4 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=george+freebsd@m5p.com; dmarc=none Received: from [IPV6:2001:470:1f07:15ff::26] (court.m5p.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f07:15ff:0:0:0:26]) (authenticated bits=0) by mailhost.m5p.com (8.16.1/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id 30HHpWQn047510 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2023 12:51:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from george+freebsd@m5p.com) Message-ID: <16a4b5c8-c15a-15b9-f9e5-d13f783f888a@m5p.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 12:51:32 -0500 List-Id: Technical discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.4.0 Subject: Re: Which fonts have lesser-used UTF-8 characters? Content-Language: en-US To: FreeBSD Hackers References: <46d5a32a-f94d-f72d-6cf0-a213c9e60932@m5p.com> <76f88f19-0797-0af9-cefd-cb8656e71cf9@FreeBSD.org> From: George Mitchell In-Reply-To: <76f88f19-0797-0af9-cefd-cb8656e71cf9@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=10.0 tests=HELO_NO_DOMAIN,NICE_REPLY_A autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on mattapan.m5p.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.30 / 15.00]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-1.000]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+a]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:701, ipnet:74.104.0.0/16, country:US]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[m5p.com]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; TAGGED_FROM(0.00)[freebsd] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4NxGfh5KgBz3QvS X-Spamd-Bar: -- X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On 1/17/23 10:41, David Chisnall wrote: > On 17/01/2023 02:59, George Mitchell wrote: >> For instance, I'm happy to report that Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Bold, >> which I use in xfce4-terminal, has such relative oddities as ⇒ (U+21d2, >> rightward double arrow) and ≡ (U+2261, identical to), as well as U+23b5, >> bottom square bracket -- which isn't in the Fixed Width font in which I >> am composing this email.  But how would I find a font that has, let's >> say, U+1d4db, mathematical bold script capital L?  Is there a font >> character search tool that knows UTF-8 code points?         -- George > > > Google publishes a no-tofu font family, including a mono version: > > https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+Mono > > These have a glyph for every unicode code point and are designed to be > used as fall-back for when the selected font does not have a glyph (and > would otherwise give blank rectangles: 'tofu') > > David Hmm, 𝓘I have that font installed, and it works in Mousepad, but Thunderbird seems unable to avail itself of all the code points. Fortunately, I don't need to put these characters in email very often. (In fact, never, until yesterday!) -- George