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Originally Posted by ahi
Of course, the Han Nom (A + B) combination covers over 70,000 CJK characters... leaving you less likely to encounter unicode blank/question-mark boxes in whatever it is you are typesetting.
How many characters does the Yuan font you use have?
- Ahi
Ps.: I understand that most of the additional characters are exceedingly rare and/or in personal names only... but even in my very limited attempts at typesetting Chinese stuff, I've come across unsupported characters a few times (with fonts other than Han Nom).
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Unfortunately most professional publishing typefaces have less than 20,000 characters. There can be problems when an odd or arbitrary character appears, but it's rare and is dealt with on a case-by-case basis in publishing it seems. Some of the freebies out there have a tragically pathetic amount of hanzi and include redundant characters and other fluff in their character count. With relatively complete typefaces, I almost never see a character that's not included.
I've been looking at the Wen Quan Yi project:
http://wenq.org/enindex.cgi but I'm a little leery about just about any open source font projects.
Addendum: just checked out the Wen Quan Yi MicroHei font and the ZenHei font and it is pretty nice for a freebie. I would have preferred a different punctuation position, and it messes up bigtime when doing vertical typesetting, but it looks pretty good on the 505 compared to the Mings and such.