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Automath

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Registered: 2016-05-16

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Full unicode support

Which packages do i need to correctly display this page? https://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~richard/unico … e-3-2.html

Half of the characters I see are square unrepresented blocks.
for example:
Runic
    ᚠ ᚡ ᚢ ᚣ ᚤ ᚥ ᚦ ᚧ ᚨ ᚩ ᚪ ᚫ ᚬ ᚭ ᚮ ᚯ ᚰ ᚱ ᚲ ᚳ ᚴ ᚵ ᚶ ᚷ ᚸ ᚹ ᚺ ᚻ ᚼ ᚽ ᚾ ᚿ ᛀ ᛁ ᛂ ᛃ ᛄ ᛅ ᛆ ᛇ ᛈ ᛉ ᛊ ᛋ ᛌ ᛍ ᛎ ᛏ ᛐ ᛑ ᛒ ᛓ ᛔ ᛕ ᛖ ᛗ ᛘ ᛙ ᛚ ᛛ ᛜ ᛝ ᛞ ᛟ ᛠ ᛡ ᛢ ᛣ ᛤ ᛥ ᛦ ᛧ ᛨ ᛩ ᛪ ᛫ ᛬ ᛭ ᛮ ᛯ ᛰ
Tagalog
    ᜀ ᜁ ᜂ ᜃ ᜄ ᜅ ᜆ ᜇ ᜈ ᜉ ᜊ ᜋ ᜌ ᜎ ᜏ ᜐ ᜑ ᜒ ᜓ ᜔
Hanunoo
    ᜠ ᜡ ᜢ ᜣ ᜤ ᜥ ᜦ ᜧ ᜨ ᜩ ᜪ ᜫ ᜬ ᜭ ᜮ ᜯ ᜰ ᜱ ᜲ ᜳ ᜴ ᜵ ᜶
Buhid
    ᝀ ᝁ ᝂ ᝃ ᝄ ᝅ ᝆ ᝇ ᝈ ᝉ ᝊ ᝋ ᝌ ᝍ ᝎ ᝏ ᝐ ᝑ ᝒ ᝓ

are all squares with hex numbers under dejavu seriff.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Full unicode support

There is no single font that covers everything.  Install the ones you need:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fonts# … in_scripts

gnu-unifont is marketted as having the widest (yet still incomplete) converage, but as it's bdf it will not be used at all by programs using pango/harfbuzz, which I believe would be most, if not all, major browsers.

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Automath

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Registered: 2016-05-16

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Re: Full unicode support

Well now I installed noto-fonts and noto-fonts-cjk and now i can see most of them, are there more characters not in that example page?

Trilby

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Re: Full unicode support

LMGTFY

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loqs

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Re: Full unicode support

Try https://www.utf8-chartable.de/ to see glyphs as rendered in your browser,  https://www.unicode.org/charts/ for the reference charts correctly rendered and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U … characters for more links.

lkraav

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Registered: 2011-04-08

Posts: 38

Re: Full unicode support

Tyvm, this made me realize Noto Emoji alone wasn't enough to get liquidprompt's "Ground Earth U+23DA" glyph (and apparently a lot of others) showing!

schard

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Re: Full unicode support

Mod note: Closing this old thread. Please refrain from necro-bumping in the future.

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