[FM Discuss] Unicode fonts with complete Italics and Bolds

[Edward Cherlin]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 13:07, 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),

I would avoid MS fonts, and look at Free fonts available with Linux. I find

Babel Unicode Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic (Basic Latin, Latin
1, Latin Extended A, Latin Extended B, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew,
Georgian)

Charis SIL Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic (Basic Latin, Latin 1,
Latin Extended A, Latin Extended B, Latin Extended C, Latin Extended
D, Greek, Cyrillic)

Deja Vu Sans, Sans Mono, Serif (Basic Latin, Latin 1, Latin Extended
A, Latin Extended B, Latin Extended C, Latin Extended D, Greek,
Cyrillic, Armenian, Hebrew, Thai, Lao, Georgian, Unified Canadian
Aboriginal Syllabics)

Gentium Basic, Gentium Book Basic; regular, bold, italic, bold italic
(Basic Latin, Latin 1, Latin Extended A, Latin Extended B, Greek,
Cyrillic)

Gentium, GentiumAlt; Regular, Italic

GFS NeoHellenic

GoudyBookletter1911 Bold, Condensed, Bold Condensed, Italic, Light,
Light Condensed (but no Bold Italic)

and more down to

Times New Roman

Ubuntu

If any of these will serve, we can discuss the other possibilities,
perhaps offline.

> 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?

Why does it have to be one font?

> TiA
>
> smo
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