Re: Seeing "missing glyphs"

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 07:49:32 -0400, John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:

> 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.

I had posted that before learning more. Nevertheless, I do appreciate your
description. I have fairly-fast broadband, yet filling out one chart
(iirc, Misc Symbols) took maybe a minute. I didn't have the heart to
simply close the page. I saved it (although it's good to know that afaik,
I must not use those symbols elsewhere; one can refer, but not use
freely...)(I do respect copyright, even if current US law essentially
makes it be, de facto, in perpetuity)

> There is, however, no license granted to use them outside that context.

As I had thought.

> 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.

I'm going to get a copy; have been meaning to.

> The coverage of Han characters is limited, but otherwise it's pretty
> close to comprehensive.

The M$ Han support is more than I ever expect to need.

Thanks much!

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