Monospace Unicode font

Question

Can anybody please tell me the monospace font that covers most of the unicode characters If not then a monospace font that contains most of the european language character s

Answer 1

While the technical specifications exist that would permit to create huge fonts, potentially covering the whole unicode range, in practice: – many apps and software stacks do not support all those opentype extensions (typically locl and OTC: https://blogs.adobe.com/CCJKType/2014/09/shs-otf-or-otc.html ) – designing all the required glyphs, and their composition rules, is a huge undertaking, many man-years to do it right

So such fonts do not exist now, or trade coverage for quality

Therefore international software should not posit the existence of a pan-unicode font but be able to compose as many different fonts as needed, with different and often overlapping coverage. It makes the software developer work harder as one may not assume the same font file is used for consecutive glyphs.

This is how modern text stacks work (for example harfbuzz-ng + fontconfig…)