Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!selfless.tophat.at!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.006 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'displayed': 0.03; 'symbols': 0.07; 'python': 0.07; 'all?': 0.09; 'collections': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229.12': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'received:lo.gmane.org': 0.09; 'underlying': 0.09; 'pm,': 0.11; 'linux': 0.11; 'wrote:': 0.14; 'enigma': 0.16; 'kern': 0.16; 'really.': 0.16; 'subject:unicode': 0.16; 'interpret': 0.19; 'code': 0.22; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.22; 'url:wiki': 0.24; 'installed': 0.29; 'unicode': 0.29; 'least': 0.30; 'points': 0.31; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.32; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.34; 'actually': 0.34; 'there': 0.35; 'received:rr.com': 0.35; 'url:en': 0.35; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.35; 'point': 0.35; 'some': 0.37; 'issue': 0.37; 'but': 0.38; 'url:org': 0.38; 'received:org': 0.38; 'though': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'header:Mime-Version:1': 0.39; 'how': 0.39; 'received:24': 0.39; 'attempt': 0.40; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'our': 0.63; 'unique': 0.63; 'world': 0.65; 'believe': 0.66; 'consortium': 0.68; 'thousands': 0.69; "'most'": 0.84; "'one'": 0.84; 'drops': 0.84; 'eco': 0.84; 'that)': 0.84; 'fonts': 0.91; 'render': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Robert Kern Subject: Re: unicode by default Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 15:18:33 -0500 Organization: The Church of Last Thursday References: <874o50k1eb.fsf@benfinney.id.au> <3ae7c960dc8cf622fcf95aa48ed9df40.squirrel@webmail.lexicon.net> <492f8500-fd53-4b52-bd7b-cd90a3118d38@k16g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rrcs-24-227-244-203.sw.biz.rr.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 27 NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.94.164.166 X-Trace: 1305317927 news.xs4all.nl 81483 [::ffff:82.94.164.166]:51765 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:5323 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