Recommended font(s) for displaying unicode characters?

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For anyone that has developed a customer-facing Java Swing application that supports multiple languages, which font(s) did you find best displayed the characters for all languages?

never need to solve that somhow on Windows OS +1 – mKorbel Dec 09 '11 at 16:23 — mKorbel, Dec 09 '11 at 16:23

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 09 '11 at 14:23

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See wikipedia on unicode. It has a nice list and a comparison chart of unicode fonts. It seems GNU Unifont support most of the languages.

answered Dec 09 '11 at 14:23

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score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 09 '11 at 15:38

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You should also read Loading Font Configuration Files on font configuration with Java 6. This file allows you to specify which font can be used to represent glyphs from a specific locale. I had to use and configure it once, and it really helped me.

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answered Dec 09 '11 at 15:35

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I forgot to mention I found that information thanks to [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/340739/setting-unicode-characters-in-java-frames) question on SO. – Laf Dec 09 '11 at 15:40

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 10 '14 at 20:44

Why not create your own?

You can create your own fonts with tools like the Icomoon App. This app allows you to do each of the following :

Get one or more icons from several popular icon fonts
Upload other fonts, which may be icon fonts but also regular fonts
Combine any number of icons from any number of available fonts
Set the UNICODE hex value for whichever characters you need
Export and/or save the font set you create

I used the Icomoon App to create the Emoji emoticon font. I also use it for creating custom icon fonts on a per project basis, but it can also be used to create custom fonts that support exactly those languages you need to support.

Recommended font(s) for displaying unicode characters?

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