From: Christopher John Fynn (cfynn@gmx.net)
Date: Mon Jun 09 2003 - 14:02:59 EDT
"Abdij Bhat" <Abdij.Bhat@kshema.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I want one font to be used across all languages. Is it
possible? For
> example, I want Tahoma to be used for all languages for all
OS.
> Does Tahoma support this?
It may be possible but it doesn't sound like a good idea - a
font with proper support for all the modern scripts in the
Unicode Standard would be *huge* - especially if it included
variant CJK glyphs for both Japanese and Chinese and proper
support for complex scripts (including Indic scripts and
Arabic).
Some Operating systems may not have support for complex script
layout.
Tahoma is a proprietory Microsoft font and unless you have a
copy of Windows installed on the same machine it may not be
legal to use it on another OS. Anyway Tahoma has support for
Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Thai - but not other
scripts.
I think you are much better off to have different fonts for
different Unicode ranges - While it makes some sense to put
glyphs for several reasonably small scripts together in a single
font, scripts, with a large glyph repertoire or scripts that
have complex layout rules are better handled with separate
fonts. Some languages which use different variants of the same
script (e.g. Chinese & Japanese or Arabic & Urdu) may also need
separate fonts for the same Unicode range.
- Chris
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