This page aims to document the Unicode coverage of all the fonts (including non-free ones) in Debian. It was created using fontforge, font-manager and gucharmap. You should also read the DebianInstaller/GUIFonts page to find out about the fonts used by the installer.

Please add any fonts which might fill in some of these blocks to the Fonts/Missing page.

Quick test

Firefox seems to render all Wikipedia languages:

• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias

  http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/languages/Names.php?view=markup

Incomplete blocks

• Arabic extended-A: U+08A2 to U+08AC, U+08E4 to U+08EF and U+08F3 to U+08FE missing

• Bopomofo extended: U+31B8 to U+31BA missing

• CJK symbols and punctuation: U+302A to U+302D only available in unifont

• Cyrillic extended B: U+A674 to U+A67B and U+A69F missing

• Enclosed alphanumeric supplement: U+1F14F, U+1F16A, U+1F16B, U+1F18E, U+1F18F, U+1F191 to U+1F19A and U+1F1E6 to U+1F1FF missing

• Georgian: U+10C7, U+10CD and U+10FD to U+10FF missing

• Georgian supplement: U+2D27 and U+2D2D missing

• Halfwidth and fullwidth forms: U+FFA0 to U+FFBE, U+FFC2 to U+FFC7, U+FFCA to U+FFCF, U+FFD2 to U+FFD7 and U+FFDA to U+FFDC only available in unifont

• Lao: U+0EDE and U+0EDF missing

• Latin extended D: U+A793, U+A7F8 and U+A7F9 missing

• Miscellaneous symbols and pictographs: U+1F540 to U+1F543 missing

• Mongolian: U+18AA only available in unifont

• Musical symbols: U+1D159 missing

• New Tai Lue: U+19AA and U+19AB missing

• Small form variants: U+FE58 only available in unifont

• Supplemental punctuation: U+2E32 to U+2E3B missing

• Tibetan: U+0F8C to U+0F8F and U+0FD9 to U+0FDA missing

• Tifinagh: U+2D70 and U+2D7F missing

Completely empty blocks

Some have glyphs available in unifont (*).

• Arabic mathematical alphabetic symbols (U+1EE00...)

• Avestan (U+10B00...) — free font available

• Balinese (U+1B00...) *

• Bamum (U+A6A0...)

• Bamum supplement (U+16800...)

• Batak (U+1BC0...)

• Brahmi (U+11000...)

• Buhid (U+1740...) *

• Chakma (U+11100...)

• Cham (U+AA00...) *

• Common Indic number forms (U+A830...) — free font available

• Imperial Aramaic (U+10840...)

• Inscriptional Pahlavi (U+10B60...) — free fonts available

• Inscriptional Parthian (U+10B40...) — free font available

• Javanese (U+A980...)

• Kaithi (U+11080...)

• Lepcha (U+1C00...) — free font available *

• Limbu (U+1900...) — free font available *

• Mandaic (U+0840...)

• Meetei Mayek extensions (U+AAE0...)

• Meroitic hieroglyphs (U+10980...)

• Meroitic cursive (U+109A0...)

• Miao (U+16F00...)

• Ol Chiki (U+1C50...) *

• Old South Arabian (U+10A60...)

• Old Turkic (U+10C00...)

• Phags-pa (U+A840...) *

• Rejang (U+A930...) *

• Rumi numeral symbols (U+10E60...)

• Samaritan (U+0800...)

• Sharada (U+11180...)

• Sora Sompeng (U+110D0...)

• Sundanese (U+1B80...) *

• Sundanese supplement (U+1CC0...)

• Syloti Nagri (U+A800...) *

• Tagalog (U+1700...) *

• Tai Tham (U+1A20...)

• Tai Viet (U+AA80...) — free font available

• Takri (U+11680...)

• Vedic extensions (U+1CD0...) — non-free font available

Also Klingon uses U+F8D0 to U+F8FF in the private use area (see ConScript Unicode Registry), but there are no fonts for it in Debian.

Some links

General:

• http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/

  http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_typeface

  http://www.travelphrases.info/fonts.html

  http://www.evertype.com/celtscript/

Specific scripts:

• Inuktitut: http://www.evertype.com/celtscript/inuktitut.html, http://www.gov.nu.ca/english/font/

• Myanmar: http://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Font, http://sourceforge.net/projects/uniburma, http://sourceforge.net/projects/prahita