[FM Discuss] Unicode fonts with complete Italics and Bolds

[Lachlan Musicman]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 05:07, Vito Smolej <smolejv at gmx.net> wrote:
>  From all the fonts I tested, when they have the full character set
> (e.g., MS
>
> Arial Unicode), they have no bold and italic for the Latin characters. This
> is not usable, because some parts with English in bold and italic might
> still appear in say, a Japanese localization. With a font without bold and
> italic, all I get in the target PDF is question marks instead of the
> characters.
>
> Would anyone know of a suitable font, preferably free, or freeware if no
> free one is available?

Unfortunately there are very few all-purpose fonts, (ie, has full
unicode, including bold and italic) so we may have to offer a
collection that together cover the whole set. What specifically were
you after that you didn't get? I don't quite understand since your
email seems to propose a potential problem rather than an exact
problem...

What I'm trying to say is: what characters are you missing, we can
find something that fills the gap. It may be that some books will have
to have a smattering of fonts through it to properly express the
authors intention - annoying, but not debilitatingly so.

cheers
L.



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