New "Unifont Upper" Font for Fontforge

Dear Fontforge Developers,

Note that recent Unifont distributions have the ordinary "Unifont" font for
Plane 0, but a second font for higher planes: "Unifont Upper".  The latest
version of this new font is here:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/unifont/unifont-7.0.01/unifont_upper-7.0.01.ttf

It was necessary to create a second font because of TrueType's hard limit
of 65,536 glyphs per font.

Along with Fontforge looking for Unifont, I recommend that it now also look
for Unifont Upper as a fallback font.  Unifont Upper will contain glyphs in
the Supplemental Multilingual Plane (Plane 1) and Plane 14.  I do not
intend to have any glyphs in Plane 2; that range is best handled by Wen
Quan Yi.  You can see a list of the scripts that Unifont Upper currently
contains at

http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html

All the best,


Paul Hardy

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