True type font introductary question

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  •  28-10-2019
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Question

Recently I used a true type font which contained spanish characters. I now want to use french characters from the same true type font but the characters do not seem to be there. My understanding was that a true type font stored all characters from all languages or at least most of them. Is this correct ? Or do I need to use a new true type font.

Thanks for any help.

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Solution

It depends on the font.

Any font can include characters from multiple languages. There's no rule that says a TrueType font must do so. It has more to do with what glyphs the font's designer wanted to include. If you require a particular glyph not included in the font that you have, you'll have to find a font that contains it.

On Windows, you can see all of the character glyphs that a particular font contains using the Character Map utility. On the Mac, you can use either the Character Palette or Key Caps.

A TrueType font is simply an outline font specification that was developed by Apple in opposition to the bitmapped fonts that were more common at the time. This was a revolutionary approach that allowed designers a much greater level of control over their font's design and vastly improved both print and display quality. Compare:

     comparison between TrueType and Bitmap fonts

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