Cannot find some symbols in Windows 11

slavfox / Cozette

A bitmap programming font optimized for coziness 💜

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Cannot find some symbols in Windows 11 #73

Closed Quorsor closed 1 year ago

Quorsor commented 2 years ago

This is on Windows 11, app is Powerpoint 365.

This is on the Windows 11 fonts settings

I tried putting it on the fonts settings and it shows the square instead of the symbol I'm looking for. I switched around otf and ttf to see if there are any differences but I found none.

slavfox commented 2 years ago

This seems to be a limitation of the BDF format; CozetteVector gets built from the BDF file, which does not contain codepoints above U+FFFF. It's something I would like to fix in the future, but that would mean rewriting the vector font build pipeline entirely - which I'm not too sure about comitting to, since Cozette is a bitmap font first and foremost and I don't test the Vector versions, nor can I verify that they work on Windows or Mac.

slavfox commented 1 year ago

I got a step closer to fixing this with 1.19.2-hidpi; I have a proof-of-concept working, but I still need to fix the font metadata before I can export TTF from a "better" format.

Quorsor commented 1 year ago

Does this also make it any closer to bringing ligatures back in the roadmap?

slavfox commented 1 year ago

Extremely unlikely. Everything is currently built from the bitmap font sources, which have no support for ligatures; to even start, I'd have to find a way to introduce ligatures at build time - which is already highly nontrivial and I'm not sure can be done here without writing a font compiler pretty much from scratch.

Quorsor commented 1 year ago

They finally work in 1.20.0 and also even works in Word.