universal unicode font for reportlab

Laszlo Nagy gandalf at shopzeus.com
Mon Sep 8 08:44:57 EDT 2008


> Laszlo Nagy <gandalf at shopzeus.com> writes:
>
>   
>> I could not find any free TTF font that can do latin1, latin2,
>> arabic, chinese and other languages at the same time. Is there a
>> single font that is able to handle these languages?
>>     
>
> The GNU Unifont <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Unifont>
> <URL:http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html> covers an impressive range of
> the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane.
>
> Unifont is originally a bitmap font, but was recently made available
> in TrueType format 
> <URL:http://www.lgm.cl/trabajos/unifont/index.en.html>.
>
> Both are available in Debian 'lenny'; the 'unifont' and 'ttf-unifont'
> packages, respectively.
>   
I found out that dejavu is what I need. It covers the languages I need 
and more:

http://dejavu.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dejavu/tags/version_2_26/dejavu-fonts/langcover.txt


Thanks four your help!

   L




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