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:'''Q:''' '''Does it support 256 characters?''' | :'''Q:''' '''Does it support 256 characters?''' | ||
:'''A:''' '''Normally yes, but be careful'''. TTF fonts rely on the Unicode standard (see the "understanding character encoding" section), which means they can virtually represent any character in the entire universe. BUT it depends if the graphic designer who created the font went into the trouble of drawing the characters that you're interested in. Chances are, if you download an English TTF font, open (for example | :'''A:''' '''Normally yes, but be careful'''. TTF fonts rely on the Unicode standard (see the "understanding character encoding" section), which means they can virtually represent any character in the entire universe. BUT it depends if the graphic designer who created the font went into the trouble of drawing the characters that you're interested in. Chances are, if you download an English TTF font, open a text editor (for example MS Word), and type any character outside of the 127 standard characters, your text editor will rollback to Times New Roman for those characters. Because Times New Roman has them. And your cheap font doesn't. | ||
At least try to find a TTF font that has the 256 characters from the Latin-1 characters set (see "understanding character encoding"). | At least try to find a TTF font that has the 256 characters from the Latin-1 characters set (see "understanding character encoding"). | ||