GNU Unifont is a Unicode font collection with glyphs for all
visible Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane (the first 64K)
character code points and many more, with supporting utilities
to view, define, modify, and convert fonts.
For more information see the project home page:
https://unifoundry.com/unifont/
NOTE: Releases from 15.1 do not include Truetype format, only Opentype
format Unifont fonts, as previously announced.
As these fonts are bitmap glyphs rendered into modern font formats,
both formats should render the same glyphs.
All modern systems support both Opentype and Truetype format fonts,
so there should be few or no issues if releases provide only Opentype
format Unifont, which are less than half the file size of the Truetype
format.
A known issue with TrueType is Pango combining character rendering not
being fixed as the Pango maintainers want to support only OpenType.
If anyone encounters issues using the Opentype format Unifont,
please let us know so we can address any issues.
The following packages have been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution:
- unifont 16.0.04
- unifont-fonts 16.0.04
- unifont-viewer 16.0.04
For recent changes, see below, or after installation, read
/usr/share/doc/unifont/NEWS:
https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html
https://unifoundry.com/unifont/unifont-utilities.html
2025-05-31 16.0.04
Plane 0:
- Modified the archaic Greek digamma glyphs, U+03DC and U+03DD.
- Modified the Korean Won currency symbol, U+20A9, to only have one bar.
- Removed Variation Selector glyphs (U+FE00..U+FE0F) from default
OpenType and TrueType font builds; they remain in the sample and SBIT
font builds.
- Modified Arabic glyphs U+0610, U+0616, U+061E, U+0620, and U+0626.
- Redrew the yeh-based glyphs in the ranges U+FC31..U+FDC7 (Arabic
Presentation Forms-A) and U+FE89..U+FE8C (Arabic Presentation
Forms-B).
- Modified some Georgian Supplement glyphs (U+2D00..U+2D2F).
- Modified U+2EB2 per Unicode updates.
Plane 1:
- Updated Old Turkic glyph U+10C47.
- Updated Khitan Small Script glyph U+18CCA.
- Reverted several changes in Musical Symbols (U+1D100..U+1D1FF) for
better positioning with combining characters.
- Modified mathematical bold digamma (U+1D7CA, U+1D7CB) to match the
updated digamma glyphs in Plane 0.
- Modified emoji glyphs U+1F602, U+1F605, U+1F606, U+1F607, U+1F609,
U+1F923, and U+1FAE0.
Plane 14:
- Removed Variation Selector glyphs (U+E0100..U+E01EF) from default
OpenType and TrueType font builds; they remain in the sample and SBIT
font builds.
Plane 15 (CSUR/UCSUR):
- Updated Sitelen Pona (U+F1900..U+F19FF)
- Updated Sitelen Pona Radicals (U+F1C80..U+F1C9F).
- Added Titi Pula (U+F1C40..UU+F1C60)
- Added Zbalermorna (U+F28A0..UU+F28DF).
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