Re: Which fonts have lesser-used UTF-8 characters?

Reply: George Mitchell : "Re: Which fonts have lesser-used UTF-8 characters?"
In reply to: George Mitchell : "Which fonts have lesser-used UTF-8 characters?"
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From: David Chisnall <theraven_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 15:41:08 UTC

On 17/01/2023 02:59, George Mitchell wrote:
> For instance, I'm happy to report that Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Bold,
> which I use in xfce4-terminal, has such relative oddities as ⇒ (U+21d2,
> rightward double arrow) and ≡ (U+2261, identical to), as well as U+23b5,
> bottom square bracket -- which isn't in the Fixed Width font in which I
> am composing this email.  But how would I find a font that has, let's
> say, U+1d4db, mathematical bold script capital L?  Is there a font
> character search tool that knows UTF-8 code points?         -- George


Google publishes a no-tofu font family, including a mono version:

https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+Mono

These have a glyph for every unicode code point and are designed to be 
used as fall-back for when the selected font does not have a glyph (and 
would otherwise give blank rectangles: 'tofu')

David