Re: Unicode TTF question

From: Bob Hallissy (Bob_Hallissy@sil.org)
Date: Wed Aug 24 2005 - 12:06:09 CDT

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    On 2005-08-24 17:20:22 Bruno Lowagie wrote:

    >is there a font (ttf, ttc, otf,...) that contains
    >the complete set of unicode characters

    No there isn't.

    It is technically impossible, at least as far as TrueType and OpenType are
    concerned, as these formats can contain a maximum of 65535 glyphs, and
    there are more characters than that in Unicode.

    Bob



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