Re: Suggest installing more fonts?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:20:37 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org>
> cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> >>> Even Unifont only supports the BMP and little else.
> >>
> >> That's wrong.  Unifont supports 100% of the BMP (including many scripts 
> >> for fictional scripts such as Klingon, which are not offically part of 
> >> Unicode), most of the SMP (the exceptions are cuneiform and 
> >> hieroglyphs), a few glyphs of SIP.
> >
> > Which is essentially what I said.
> 
> Aha.  So the 80%-90% coverage of the SMP (the exceptions being cuneiform 
> and hieroglyphs) by Unifont is essentially nothing?

It isn't nothing, but it is a small fraction of the existing
codepoints, let alone those which could/will be defined in the future.
A single font cannot support more than 64K glyphs, which is a small
number compared to the Unicode range of codes.