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Originally Posted by kylecronan
clarknova, that's very impressive and quite a useful hack! So what's a good font that supports many or most of the Unicode code blocks?
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That's the $25,000 question. I don't think there are any universal multilingual fonts that look very good. For most western language speakers the Times/Arial/Courier combo will do it. However the fonts are not redistributable outside of their unaltered form, which means people would have to download the original packages, extract the fonts and build the updates themselves.
For the CJK, Thai, Indian, and other non-latin based languages, different font sets would be needed, and again the updates would have to be built individually.
Technically you could probably use BitStream Cyberbit and Arial Unicode as your Serif and Sans fonts if you wanted all of the unicode glyphs, but this is overkill and would cost you the ability to have bold or italics.