Universal font

[Jenna1337]

Consider adding a universal font for names, and possibly a chat function in the future.

[Jenna1337]

Note that some Chinese characters look different in different languages, so we will have to either use IETF BCP 47 language tags, Unicode ideographic variation sequences, or some alternative way of identifying the language of the text.

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Note it isn't practical to have precomposed characters for every CJK character, so we might have to compose them ourselves by writing some code.

[Jenna1337]

I have put together a list of what I believe are the most common Unicode characters to include in a universal sprite font:

• Basic Latin (Lower half of ISO/IEC 8859-1: ISO/IEC 646:1991-IRV aka ASCII) (0000–007F)

• Latin-1 Supplement (Upper half of ISO/IEC 8859-1) (0080–00FF)

• Latin Extended-A (0100–017F)

• Latin Extended-B (0180–024F)

• IPA Extensions (0250–02AF)

• Spacing Modifier Letters (02B0–02FF)

• Combining Diacritical Marks (0300–036F)

• Greek and Coptic (0370–03FF)

• Cyrillic (0400–04FF)

• Latin Extended Additional (1E00–1EFF)

• Greek Extended (1F00–1FFF)

• General Punctuation (2000–206F)

• Superscripts and Subscripts (2070–209F)

• Currency Symbols (20A0–20CF)

• Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols(20D0–20FF)

• Letterlike Symbols (2100–214F)

• Number Forms (2150–218F)

• Arrows (2190–21FF)

• Mathematical Operators (2200–22FF)

• Miscellaneous Technical (2300–23FF)

• Control Pictures (2400–243F)

• Enclosed Alphanumerics (2460–24FF)

• Box Drawing (2500–257F)

• Block Elements (2580–259F)

• Geometric Shapes (25A0–25FF)

• Miscellaneous Symbols (2600–26FF)

• Dingbats (2700–27BF)

• Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A(27C0–27EF)

• Supplemental Arrows-A (27F0–27FF)

• Supplemental Arrows-B (2900–297F)

• Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B(2980–29FF)

• Supplemental Mathematical Operators(2A00–2AFF)

• Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows(2B00–2BFF)

• Latin Extended-C (2C60–2C7F)

• Coptic (2C80–2CFF)

• Cyrillic Extended-A (2DE0–2DFF)

• Supplemental Punctuation (2E00–2E7F)

• CJK Radicals Supplement (2E80–2EFF)

• Kangxi Radicals (2F00–2FDF)

• Ideographic Description Characters(2FF0–2FFF)

• CJK Symbols and Punctuation (3000–303F)

• Hiragana (3040–309F)

• Katakana (30A0–30FF)

• Bopomofo (3100–312F)

• Hangul Compatibility Jamo (3130–318F)

• Kanbun (3190–319F)

• Bopomofo Extended (31A0–31BF)

• CJK Strokes (31C0–31EF)

• Katakana Phonetic Extensions (31F0–31FF)

• CJK Unified Ideographs (4E00–9FFF)

• Cyrillic Extended-B (A640–A69F)

• Hangul Syllables (AC00–D7AF)

• CJK Compatibility Ideographs (F900–FAFF)

• Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (FF00–FFEF)

• U+FFFD � replacement character

[Jenna1337]

Note it isn't practical to have precomposed characters for every CJK character, so we might have to compose them ourselves by writing some code.

I found a file some people put together that would greatly help with this purpose: https://gitlab.chise.org/CHISE/ids/-/blob/master/IDS-UCS-Basic.txt