Once in a while, you come across some script that cannot be rendered on screen because you don't have the necessary font. If you are content with English only, then you can ignore this little annoyance. But if you speak another language or a foreign language student, you probably want to get a complete package of multilingual fonts.
As a Linux user, I found it sometimes frustrating or bothersome to have lack of a complete assortment of multilingual fonts. So I looked for fonts of many modern and ancient scripts on the Internet. The following is a list of fonts I collected that allow rendering of all the characters on the Web. You can use these fonts to write multilingual documents, too. A good place to test these fonts on the Web is the Wikipedia homepage.
Basic Minimal Fonts
You need the following font packages for basic rendering of Latin and Western-European alphabets. I use a Debian-based Linux system, so the following packages have Debian package names:
- ttf-bitstream-vera or
- ttf-dejavu
- latex-xft-fonts
Foreign Language Fonts
Additionally you need to download the following TrueType or OpenType fonts to view many foreign scripts other than English and Western European languages. Be aware that the following list is for a minimal multilingual system. There are many more fonts than listed below. You can use Yahoo! Search to find where to download these fonts. Below the contents of my /usr/local/share/fonts directory is shown.
AboriginalSansBOLD.ttf
AboriginalSansBOLDITALIC.ttf
AboriginalSansITALIC.ttf
AboriginalSansREGULAR.ttf
AboriginalSerifBOLD.ttf
AboriginalSerifBOLDITALIC.ttf
AboriginalSerifITALIC.ttf
AboriginalSerifREGULAR.ttf
Aegean.otf
FM-MalithiUW46.ttf
Phetsarath_OT.ttf
TagDoc93.ttf
akshar.ttf
arheiu30.ttf
cursor-felipe.pcf.gz
damase_v.2.ttf
dilyan.ttf
encodings.dir
estre.ttf
evermono.ttf
fonts.cache-1
fonts.dir
fonts.scale
gulim16uni.pcf.gz
h2mjsb.ttf
h2mjsm.ttf
hapaxber.ttf
hei16ascii.pcf.gz
joyig.ttf
malgun.ttf
malgunbd.ttf
micross.ttf
mm3.ttf
mond40uhgs.ttf
nastaliq_unicode.ttf
newathu.ttf
paisan98.ttf
raavi.ttf
silyi.ttf
simsun16ascii.pcf.gz
tagbanwa.ttf
tahoma.ttf
tahomabd.ttf
taileval.ttf
tashi.ttf
tituscbz.ttf
uchen.ttf
vrinda.ttf
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