unicode by default

[Robert Kern]

On 5/13/11 2:53 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?

There are some well-known fonts that try to cover a large section of the Unicode 
standard.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_typeface

> 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?

Not really.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco