Unifont 10.0.04 is now available. This is a significant release that introduces numerous improvements.
Unifont provides fonts with a glyph for each printable code point in the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane, as well as wide coverage of the Supplemental Multilingual Plane and some ConScript Unicode Registry glyphs. The Unifont package includes TrueType fonts for all of these ranges, and BDF and PCF fonts for the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane. There is also a specialized PSF font for using GNU APL in console mode on GNU/Linux systems. The web page for this project is https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/unifont/. You can download the latest version from GNU mirror sites, accessible at http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/unifont/unifont-10.0.04. If the mirror site does not contain this latest version, you can download files directly from GNU at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/unifont/unifont-10.0.04/. Highlights of this version: - Added "-P" flag to the unifontpic utility to specify the Unicode plane. This allows creating code charts for glyphs above Plane 0. The Unicode plane is now added to the chart title. This works properly for the wide and the long chart versions, with the letters in the long version's chart title now single-spaced. - Received double-width Chinese ideographs to replace the quadruple-width glyphs for Church Slavonic transliteration that were released in Unifont 10.0.01. This allows a return to PNG charts of Unifont glyphs. PNG files are smaller than the BMP version but the PNG Unifont utilities have not been modified to handle quadruple-width glyphs, whereas the BMP utilities have been. The 18 quadruple-width Chinese glyphs are preserved in font/plane00/alt/quad-width.hex to allow future experimentation. - The PNG charts of Unicode Plane 1 (Supplemental Multilingual Plane) glyphs now use the unifont_sample version of Unifont ".hex" files, so that combining circles appear. This was already being done for Unicode Plane 0 and will look better in font sample pages. - Added new x-offset field to all *-combining.txt files to provide proper rendering of Unicode double diacritic marks; they should span across the preceding character and the following character. Added support for this in hex2sfd for FontForge generation of TrueType fonts. Also added support for this to the unigencircles utility, so the combining circle of a double diacritic is printed correctly in the left half of the glyph just as they are in the Unicode Consortium's code charts, rather than being centered. Several applications are not rendering these double diacritic marks correctly; releasing this version of Unifont will allow validation of the new Unifont TrueType build, and could provide a test font for implementing these specialty Unicode characters in other applications. - Redrew Musical Symbols Ornaments (U+01D194..U+01D1A5) so they join together when used as a consecutive string of characters. Adjusted the Byzantine Musical Symbols "ano", "meso", and "kato" glyph versions for high, middle, and low vertical placement, respectively. - Made numerous adjustments to many glyphs as noted in the ChangeLog file, including re-coding some "subjoiner" glyphs as combining characters instead of as non-printing. Those glyphs now render a virama (halant) sign if a script contains such a sign, or a "+" subscript sign otherwise. Sincerely, Paul Hardy GNU Unifont Maintainer -- If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
