More complete unicode fonts

asked 2015-10-30 10:38:09 +0200

Yenya gravatar image

updated 2015-10-30 10:38:30 +0200

On my Linux desktop and on my 5+ years old Andr* phone Firefox is able to render various non-letter Unicode glyphs, which I often use in my own web-based appliactions instead of icons in order to save bandwidth. The web browser on my new Jolla cannot display some of them, even though sufficiently free fonts are indeed available. Some examples:

 ≋       U+224B      TRIPLE TILDE
 ⌀       U+2300      DIAMETER SIGN
 ☢       U+2622      RADIOACTIVE SIGN
 ⋈       U+22C8      BOWTIE
 ➊       U+278A      DINGBAT NEGATIVE CIRCLED SANS-SERIF DIGIT ONE
 ➋       U+278B      DINGBAT NEGATIVE CIRCLED SANS-SERIF DIGIT TWO

Can the default font be made more complete, including for example the above glyphs? Alternatively, how can I add more fonts to the system and set up the web browser to use them?

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Similar question, maybe worth merging?

https://together.jolla.com/question/115565/polytonic-greek-or-even-better-full-unicode-font/

Between dingbats, emoticon/emoji symbols and various languages, I think better support for unicode is needed.

And there are a few free fonts available, see https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts for example. Or there is always dejavu: http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page

mikelima ( 2015-10-30 11:08:21 +0200 )edit
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The emoji keyboard from openrepos comes with a font that includes quite a few non-letter glyphs.

ossi1967 ( 2015-10-30 11:22:33 +0200 )edit

Indeed, useful arrow characters for CSS-only solutions are also missing: ▾ and ⌄

lkraav ( 2015-11-02 22:14:25 +0200 )edit