Please tell me how to display IPA characters properly with a monospace font

Tokiedian SteelPanthers · Oct 16, 2018, 5:19 PM

7.5.9 portable in Japanese with “Noto Mono” font

First, create txt in UTF-8, write bʰ, then write d. Completely broken
Another example, write bʰ, then put ideographic space. And this time it’s not broken
What’s happen? What’s wrong in the former one?

Basically notepad++ cannot display most of Phonetic characters constantly properly on my PC. What’s wrong? Is encoding of notepad++ completely sucks? Or is my setting wrong?

guy038 · Oct 17, 2018, 12:51 PM

Hello, @tokiedian-steelpanthers,

Your default Noto Mono font does not reproduce the glyphs of the Unicode IPA Extensions block characters, below :

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0250.pdf

Here are, below, a table with a summary of some monospaced fonts, which represent all IPA extensions characters, properly

For the record, you may, also, refer to :

The two MS Mincho and MS Gothic fonts, which can handle the Japanese Hiragana and Katakata characters
The proportional fonts Lucida Sans Unicode and Microsoft Sans Serif, which both support the IPA Extensions characters, too

•----------------------•-----------•--------•---------•-------•-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------•
|     Font Name        |  Version  | Glyphs | Digit 0 | Serif |                                            Download link                                              |
•----------------------•-----------•--------•---------•-------•-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------•
| Code New Roman       |    2.10   |  2,740 | Slashed |       | http://www.fontspace.com/download/21129/7aaebf327a7240b98dabadef5d1bc786/typostyle_code-new-roman.zip |
| Consola Mono         |    2.001  |  1,465 | Slashed |       | https://fontlibrary.org/assets/downloads/consolamono/61cc2afcc4eca96efe7c6ebf178d39df/consolamono.zip |
| Cousine              |    1.20   |  2,385 | Dotted  |       | https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/download/cousine                                                   |
| DET Terminal Modern  |    1.0    |  2,218 |         |       | https://dl.dafont.com/dl/?f=dec_terminal_modern                                                       |
| DejaVu Sans Mono     |    2.37   |  3,377 | Dotted  |       | http://sourceforge.net/projects/dejavu/files/dejavu/2.37/dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.37.zip                    |
| Espresso Mono        |    2.17   |  2,870 | Slashed |       | https://github.com/jmazzi/dotfiles/tree/master/.fonts                                                 |
| FreeMono             | 0412 2268 |  4,177 |         |  Yes  | http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/freefont-ttf-20120503.zip                                             |
| Iosevka              |    2.0.0  |  3,712 | Slashed |       | https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/releases                                                          |
| Iosevka Slab         |    2.0.0  |  3,712 | Slashed |  Yes  | https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/releases                                                          |
| Meslo LG M           |    1.210  |  2,708 | Slashed |       | https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font/archive/master.zip                                            |
| Meslo LG S           |    1.210  |  2,708 | Slashed |       | https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font/archive/master.zip                                            |
| Meslo LG M DZ        |    1.210  |  2,708 | Dotted  |       | https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font/archive/master.zip                                            |
| Meslo LG S DZ        |    1.210  |  2,708 | Dotted  |       | https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font/archive/master.zip                                            |
•----------------------•-----------•--------•---------•-------•-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------•
| MS Gothic            |    5.10   | 22,290 |         |       |                                                                                                       |
| MS Mincho            |    5.10   | 19,398 |         |  Yes  |                                                                                                       |
•----------------------•-----------•--------•---------•-------•-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------•
| Lucida Sans Unicode  |    5.00   |  1,779 |         |       |                                                                                                       |
| Microsoft Sans Serif |    5.11   |  3,205 |         |       |                                                                                                       |
•----------------------•-----------•--------•---------•-------•-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------•

Cheers,

guy038