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_Gaelle_Meheut_
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July 10, 2008
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"Universal" font

  • July 10, 2008
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Hello everybody !!!!

I'm looking for a font that can handles every type of characters, from the latin alphabet till the cyrillic alphabet via the asiatic alphabets (japanese, chinese, ..). I though that Lucida Grande would do it, but apparently not (when I embed this font on my appli, it doens't display correctly the characters..). With a japanese character I though that I would have manage to find it, but unfortunately the russian is craply displayed (with a huge letter-spacing)
So do you know if this magic font exist or how to find it ?

In other case, do you know how to find the character palette on the mac that would list me all the font available on my mac and which alphabet these fonts handle ?

Or maybe a website with fonts and their cover ?

Thanks a lot for any help !!!
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    _Gaelle_Meheut_Author
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    July 10, 2008
    Okay, since there were some other answers !

    Thanks a lot for your "lights" yeah, it appears that I'll have to make more code to handle my problem..
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    _Gaelle_Meheut_Author
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    July 10, 2008
    of course the japonese characters don't work here that why precedently my font name is really crappy !
    Anyway, I forgot to tell you that I don't have any CharViewer on my mac, I'll try find a free download on internet !
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    John_Nolan-ylAnVM
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    July 10, 2008
    I think the cyrillic characters in the Japanese fonts are meant for setting short word or phases within Japanese test, and spaced to work within that context.

    I think you'll probably need to switch fonts, and that you should probably ask for advice in the Flash forums, or the Flex forums.
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    Neil_Keller
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    July 10, 2008
    Gaelle,

    For Japanese and Chinese, you need to use dedicated fonts, due to the number glyphs involved. But I believe these also include basic Roman characters as well.

    Neil
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    _Gaelle_Meheut_Author
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    July 10, 2008
    Hey thanks for the answer !

    In fact, the problem with Lucida Grande is that it doesn't support (not cyrillic alphabet but) asiatic alphabets, as japonese or chinese.

    It's with fonts as "Hirogina Kaku W3" or also called "ヒラギノ明朝 ProN W3" that my russian words have huge spaces between their letters.

    My application is the one I coded within Flex language, and using a style sheet css to embedded the fonts. (embedded fonts created thanks Adobe Flash)

    Jeeezzz I would like to find a correct font with latin, japonese, chinese and cyrillic alphabets including the accents !! My problems would be solved !!!
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    John_Nolan-ylAnVM
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    July 10, 2008
    CharViewer should be in your Application folder. It allows you to browse characters in installed fonts by language and category.

    I don't think you'll be able to find a font that supports _every_ type of character, but Lucida Grande does support a lot. I don't know why the Cyrillic spacing is off, but I suspect you're not seeing the spacing built into the font. I just pasted some text from the Pravda site into Textedit and applied Lucida Grande to it, and it looked okay to me. (Mind you I don't know any Russian!)

    What app are you using to set the type?
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