xfonts-unifont binary package in Ubuntu Xenial amd64
This contains two fonts: "Unifont" (unifont.pcf.gz) and
"Unifont Sample" (unifont_
.
This is a bitmap version of Unifont and Unifont Sample in a
standard X11 format. The fonts provide a glyph for each visible
code point (character) in the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane
(Plane 0). Plane 0 contains most of the world's modern writing
scripts. These fonts look best at 12pt.
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Unifont Sample contains combining circles for combining characters,
and so is suited for illustrating individual Unicode glyphs, whereas
Unifont is intended for general-purpose writing.
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Complex fonts (such as Indic or Semitic scripts, where letters
change shape depending on their position in a word, or such as
Mongolian, which is written vertically) will not render perfectly.
The philosophy behind Unifont, though, is that anything meaningful
is better than an empty box for a unknown glyph.
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Consider using the TrueType version instead (ttf-unifont), because
that version is scalable to any point size and has proper combining
character support.
Publishing history
Date | Status | Target | Component | Section | Priority | Phased updates | Version | ||
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2015-10-22 15:20:22 UTC | Published | Ubuntu Xenial amd64 | release | main | x11 | Optional | 1:8.0.01-1 | ||
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