From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggest installing more fonts? Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 18:50:46 +0300 Message-ID: <83lffyl0o9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wnzqa1be.fsf@gnus.org> <83y2k6v378.fsf@gnu.org> <87eely5mof.fsf@gnus.org> <83o8l2utb5.fsf@gnu.org> <874kmt1icl.fsf@gnus.org> <83o8l1teo3.fsf@gnu.org> <87tuusklki.fsf@gnus.org> <83tuurr24j.fsf@gnu.org> <87y2k2fwgu.fsf@gnus.org> <83pn5ep8x0.fsf@gnu.org> <87zh4hi43l.fsf@gnus.org> <83eeltnf3b.fsf@gnu.org> <87sga7kg9s.fsf@gnus.org> <83tuunmy97.fsf@gnu.org> <87lffyijie.fsf@gnus.org> <83y2jyl7t6.fsf@gnu.org> <83pn5al65w.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12018"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 22 17:52:14 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kVcsu-0002zg-Vz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:52:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59302 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kVcsu-0005SI-1s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:52:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44540) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kVcrJ-0004Ro-JU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:50:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45893) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kVcrJ-000814-64; Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:50:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3816 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kVcrH-0007Ch-Sq; Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:50:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Gregory Heytings on Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:20:37 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:258302 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:20:37 +0000 > From: Gregory Heytings > cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > >>> Even Unifont only supports the BMP and little else. > >> > >> That's wrong. Unifont supports 100% of the BMP (including many scripts > >> for fictional scripts such as Klingon, which are not offically part of > >> Unicode), most of the SMP (the exceptions are cuneiform and > >> hieroglyphs), a few glyphs of SIP. > > > > Which is essentially what I said. > > Aha. So the 80%-90% coverage of the SMP (the exceptions being cuneiform > and hieroglyphs) by Unifont is essentially nothing? It isn't nothing, but it is a small fraction of the existing codepoints, let alone those which could/will be defined in the future. A single font cannot support more than 64K glyphs, which is a small number compared to the Unicode range of codes.