Re: Bitstream Vera does not include U+2010 HYPHEN character

[Stepan Roh <stepan srnet cz>]

Hello.

You may want to look on DejaVu fonts (http://dejavu.sf.net). They are 
Bitstream Vera derivative and since version 1.5 contain U+2010.

Have a nice day.

Stepan Roh

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Andrew Archibald wrote:

> I've just tracked down a rather annoying problem on my Debian system. For 
> some reason, when a UTF-8 locale is set, man-db generates both ASCII  hyphens 
> and the character U+2010 (I have as yet no idea when or why itdoes one rather 
> than the other).  I use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Bold in my terminal 
> emulators, and it lacks any glyph for U+2010, so man pages appear full of 
> "unknown character" boxes.  The fix is easy: I just load the font into 
> fontforge, copy the ASCII hyphen to position U+2010, and save the result 
> somewhere fontconfig can find it; the problem goes away when I use the new 
> font.
>
> The Unicode hyphen character is supposed to look like the ASCII 
> hyphen-or-minus character but disambiguate its meaning.  It should look 
> different from the Unicode minus character (mostly in vertical alignment).
>
> The character itself may be easily produced:
> $ python -c "print u'\u2010'"
>
>
> It may not be preserved by the various mailers, and Mozilla Firefox (for 
> example) replaces it on the fly with the same character from another font.
>
> I am using Bitstream Vera 1.10.  (Other software versions and so on can be 
> found in the Debian bug report, at 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=293850 ).