unicode by default

[Terry Reedy]

On 5/13/2011 3:53 PM, harrismh777 wrote:

> The unicode consortium is very careful to make sure that thousands of
> symbols have a unique code point (that's great !) but how do these
> thousands of symbols actually get displayed if there is no font
> consortium? Are there collections of 'standard' fonts for unicode that I
> am not aware? Is there a unix linux package that can be installed that
> drops at least 'one' default standard font that will be able to render
> all or 'most' (whatever I mean by that) code points in unicode? Is this
> a Python issue at all?

Easy, practical use of unicode is still a work in progress.

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Terry Jan Reedy