Support for U+2010 and other punctuation codepoints in fonts
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:34 am
The following blog post makes mention of lack of support of U+2010 in some fonts.
http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2 ... 45383.aspx
I found the following in the archives of the Unicode mail list.
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicod ... /0101.html
If you are prompted for a username and password for guest access to the archives, they are both available on the following page.
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/
The code chart is available as follows.
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf
It is available from the following page from the link labelled as General Punctuation.
http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html
I have already added glyphs for U+2010 and U+2011 into my Quest text font as a result of reading the blog post and the posting in the archives of the Unicode mailing list, thus producing version 2.21 of the Quest text font.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/QUESTTXT.TTF
The Alt code for U+2010 is Alt 8208.
Using WordPad I have tried Alt 8208 with a number of fonts to test whether U+2010 is supported. On this system Arial and Times New Roman do not support U+2010, whereas Gentium, Worcester SF and Frankenstein SF do support U+2010.
William Overington
13 September 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2 ... 45383.aspx
I found the following in the archives of the Unicode mail list.
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicod ... /0101.html
If you are prompted for a username and password for guest access to the archives, they are both available on the following page.
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/
The code chart is available as follows.
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf
It is available from the following page from the link labelled as General Punctuation.
http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html
I have already added glyphs for U+2010 and U+2011 into my Quest text font as a result of reading the blog post and the posting in the archives of the Unicode mailing list, thus producing version 2.21 of the Quest text font.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/QUESTTXT.TTF
The Alt code for U+2010 is Alt 8208.
Using WordPad I have tried Alt 8208 with a number of fonts to test whether U+2010 is supported. On this system Arial and Times New Roman do not support U+2010, whereas Gentium, Worcester SF and Frankenstein SF do support U+2010.
William Overington
13 September 2007