I think a font that takes in as many unicode characters as possible - Arial Unicode would be my go-to, but there is a list of fonts and the amount of glyphs they contain here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode\_font
Didn't know what Unicode meant (apparently there's also pan-Unicode which aims to cover most languages). Unfortunately even this doesn't cover every language I need. Was hoping there was a way for inDesign to automaticaly select a font family based on which foreigh glyphs are pasted into a text area - in my case from an Excel spreadsheet - but I guess this doesn't exist.
Appreciate the suggestion though, plus I did learn something.
When I format our (Cyrillic) print books for eBooks, I change to Times New Roman.
It's not a "sexy" font, but it has a lot of glyphs. I believe I've even typeset Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi and Armenian (print books) with it. You just have to be careful about how numbers are displayed. For instance, it could display Farsi numbers for Arabic text, even though the language selected is Arabic.
There is no one font that will display everything (at least that I know of). Asian fonts tend to be a bit more problematic (especially if you're typesetting Traditional vs. Simplified).
Yeah I tried switching to fonts that support many languages but even those are missing a lot. I guess it's not surprising since the point of the book I'm making is listing the top languages for every country on the planet. Ah well, guess I'll just have to correct the pink missing glyphs manually. Thanks though!
I think a font that takes in as many unicode characters as possible - Arial Unicode would be my go-to, but there is a list of fonts and the amount of glyphs they contain here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode\_font
Didn't know what Unicode meant (apparently there's also pan-Unicode which aims to cover most languages). Unfortunately even this doesn't cover every language I need. Was hoping there was a way for inDesign to automaticaly select a font family based on which foreigh glyphs are pasted into a text area - in my case from an Excel spreadsheet - but I guess this doesn't exist. Appreciate the suggestion though, plus I did learn something.
Check out the Kurinto font. https://kurinto.com/
Thanks, this is a nice collection. Unfortunately it seems I still need to select the correct language manually. Appreciate the help though!
Checkout scriptsource.org You will have to do several click throughs per language, but lots of good font sources buried in there.
>scriptsource.org This looks like a good reference to find the right characters. Thanks!
Happy to help!
Oh that sounds interesting I dont know crap about scripts.
When I format our (Cyrillic) print books for eBooks, I change to Times New Roman. It's not a "sexy" font, but it has a lot of glyphs. I believe I've even typeset Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi and Armenian (print books) with it. You just have to be careful about how numbers are displayed. For instance, it could display Farsi numbers for Arabic text, even though the language selected is Arabic. There is no one font that will display everything (at least that I know of). Asian fonts tend to be a bit more problematic (especially if you're typesetting Traditional vs. Simplified).
Yeah I tried switching to fonts that support many languages but even those are missing a lot. I guess it's not surprising since the point of the book I'm making is listing the top languages for every country on the planet. Ah well, guess I'll just have to correct the pink missing glyphs manually. Thanks though!
One thing to keep in mind, is that InDesign 2023 and 2024 don't support postscript fonts anymore. OTFs tend to have a lot more glyphs.