Thursday, March 4, 2010

Re: math, utf-8, and windows

Antony Scriven wrote:
> Charles Campbell wrote:
>
> > I've written a math keymap and menu plugin
> > (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2723) which generates
> > various math-related glyphs with utf-8 encoding.
> >
> > As a sampling... (which may or may not show up properly
> > in some browsers, so this is something of an experiment
> > in itself)
> >
> > abcdefghijklmnoprstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
> > αβψδϵφγηιξκλμνοπρστθvωχυζ ΑΒΨΔΕΦΓΗΙΞΚΛΜΝΟΠQΡΣΤΘΩWΧΥΖ
> >
> > 0123456789
> > ⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹
> > ₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉
> >
> > ⌠ ⎡⎤
> > ⎮ ⎢⎥
> > ⌡ ⎣⎦
> >
> > (and there's many more)
> >
> > Now for my question -- I use Luxi Mono under Linux, but
> > is there a font that will display these utf-8 characters
> > under Windows (and, if so: how to install it)?
>
> It's not very well hinted, needing 12pt or above, but the
> FreeMono font displays all your sample glyphs correctly in
> Windows. --Antony
>
>
I'll give it a try tonight! (when I've got a Windows o/s running)

Thank you,
Chip Campbell

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