Can anybody please tell me the monospace font that covers most of the unicode characters If not then a monospace font that contains most of the european language character set ?

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Is the Font type 'Arial monospaced for SAP' come toghether with SAP when we installed SAP GUI? Former Member. And is stored in your source cd under the. SapGui fonts. Copy it to the windows font folder. Best regards. 1 Likes 1 View this answer in context Not what you were looking for? View more on this topic.

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Nearly every font nowadays covers at least Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. And enough of Latin to support most European languages.

However, there can't be a single font covering most of Unicode, as OpenType is limited to 65536 glyphs and there are more code points assigned so far. Also it's a common misconception that a single font for as many scripts as possible is a Good Thing™. It's not, actually. Remember that for the font to work other things must be in place as well: properly defined diacritics support (so combining accents actually appear above/below the base characters and not somewhere next to them), precomposed glyphs for some scripts so the rendering engine can use them properly, this includes Arabic and and Indic scripts, ...

It's a major undertaking and as such it's not surprising that pretty much the only fonts covering large portions of Unicode are last-resort fonts, intended to be used when no other font exists to display something. As a fallback mechanism, but never as a first choice. The preferred way is actually to let the rendering engine sort out script support for fonts and not try to cram it all into a single font. See also Michael Kaplan's take on this: Arial Unicode MS effectively [bites|sucks|blows] .

Still, if you're only looking for glyph support:

• Lucida Sans Unicode
• Fixedsys Excelsior
• Everson Mono
• DejaVu Sans Mono
• Roboto Mono

Those fonts are pretty large already. But as noted above, don't count on correct workings of complex scripts or typography.

I'm also searching for mono space, rich Unicode font. So far I use DejaVu Sans Mono, but I wanted to know whether there is better (for me) replacement.

So, as of today, I have downloaded the following TTF fonts and count their number of glyphs:

• DejaVu Sans Mono: 3289
• Everson Mono: 9671
• Fixedsys Excelsior: 5993
• FreeMono: 4177
• GNU Unifont: 57089
• Lucida Sans Unicode: 1779

But their usefulness is also matter of what symbols are exactly supported and how they look. For example the Fixedsys and Unifont have old-school appearance. Anyway, this could be useful info for somebody...

There's the GNU Unifont project, which more or less has this as its goal.

Osaka Mono (If you are crazy like me and want to program with Japanese variable names.)

Full Name: Osaka-等幅

CSS: font-family:'Osaka-Mono';

After looking at 25+ fonts, I only found1 that fit all of my criteria for programming:

Fonts I found unsuable because either:

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1. Kanji were not exactly 2 ascii chars wide.
2. Full width unicode letters were not exactly 2 ascii chars wide.

1. Andale Mono
2. Apple Gothic
3. Bitstream Cyberbit
4. Consolas
5. DejaVu Sans Mono
6. Everson Mono
7. FixedSys Excelsior
8. Free Mono
9. Han Wang Hei Heavy
10. Han Wang Min Black
11. Han Wang Zon Yi
12. Kaiso Next B
13. Kozuka Gothic Pro R
14. Lucidia Sans Unicode
15. Monospace (By George William )
16. Nanum Gothic
17. Noto Mono
18. Noto Mono Regular
19. Noto Sans CJK JP Regular
20. Osaka
21. Roboto
22. Roboto Mono
23. Un Yetgul

The Unicode font called Monospace will cover pretty much all European characters, but lacks the Asian ones.

Consolas is a modern monospace font shipped with Micosoft's products.

An example of a font that covers a wide range of Unicode characters is Arial Unicode shipped with Microsoft Office products.

While the technical specifications exist that would permit to create huge fonts, potentially covering the whole unicode range, in practice: – many apps and software stacks do not support all those opentype extensions (typically locl and OTC: https://blogs.adobe.com/CCJKType/2014/09/shs-otf-or-otc.html ) – designing all the required glyphs, and their composition rules, is a huge undertaking, many man-years to do it right

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So such fonts do not exist now, or trade coverage for quality

Therefore international software should not posit the existence of a pan-unicode font but be able to compose as many different fonts as needed, with different and often overlapping coverage. It makes the software developer work harder as one may not assume the same font file is used for consecutive glyphs.

This is how modern text stacks work (for example harfbuzz-ng + fontconfig…)

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