Nicholas Bodley scripsit:

> Macchiato has a delightful Web page...
> <http://www.macchiato.com/unicode/show.html>
> [...]
> I'm curious to know where it gets its glyphs from! One thinks there's
> something like a complete Unicode font hiding somewhere.

Of course there is: the set of fonts used to render the Unicode
book itself. The wonders of This Frame/View Frame Source on Mozilla
(right-click on the image to get this) reveal that the glyphs are being
pulled directly from the Unicode site as individual gifs -- a slow and
painful process.

The underlying font glyphs are contributed by various font creators,
especially Michael Everson, for use in the Unicode book. There is,
however, no license granted to use them outside that context.

AFAIK the best-maintained full Unicode font is James Kass's Code2000 (the
BMP) and Code2001 (the SMP), available at http://home.att.net/~jameskass/ .
Code2000 is shareware, and worth many times the US$5 James is asking.
The coverage of Han characters is limited, but otherwise it's pretty
close to comprehensive.

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