6 March 2022 GNU Unifont 14.0.02 is now available. This is a major stable release, and reflects additions made in the Unicode 14.0.0 Standard as well as modifications to glyphs in the preliminary Unifont 14.0.01 release.
Unifont provides fonts with a glyph for each printable code point in the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane (Unicode Plane 0), as well as wide coverage of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (Unicode Plane 1) and some ConScript Unicode Registry (CSUR) and Under CSUR (UCSUR) glyphs. The unifont_jp TrueType font also includes the 303 kanji from JIS X 0213 that are in Unicode Plane 2. 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. This release maintains full coverage of the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane, plus over 12,600 glyphs for scripts in the Unicode Supplementary Multilingual Plane. The Unifont web page http://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html contains detailed descriptions of these and other additions for this release. The Savannah web page is https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/unifont/. You can download the latest version from GNU mirror sites, accessible at: https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/unifont/unifont-14.0.02/ or if that fails, https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/unifont/unifont-14.0.02/ or, as a last resort, ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/unifont/unifont-14.0.02/ The public domain font Izumi16 is a JIS X 0213-encoded BDF font covering JIS planes 1 and 2. In Unifont, its kanji glyphs have been mapped to code points in Unicode planes 0 and 2 (the only Unicode Plane 2 glyphs to appear in a Unifont release). This provides complete coverage of JIS X 0213 in a free Unicode font, except for the JIS katakana glyphs that do not have a one-to-one mapping in Unicode. More information about this mapping is available at http://unifoundry.com/japanese/index.html Full details of this release are in the ChangeLog file. Enjoy! Paul Hardy GNU Unifont Maintainer
