Unicode-capable, sans-serif terminal fonts?

[Stewart C. Russell]

William O'Higgins wrote:
> 
> What I'd like is an attractive, sans-serif Unicode-capable font for my
> terminal windows, anti-aliased if at all possible.

Okay, what subset of unicode do you want? A font containing every single
glyph is huge (Bitstream Cyberbit -- the first complete Unicode font --
was 23MB as a TTF) and makes X go slow. So you probably want a font that
has the glyphs you're likely to see. A good compromise between size and
usefulness is the (gulp) MS WGL subset; all of the non-pi MS Corefonts
have these.

A good resource for finding what you're after is
<http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/>. Back when I really cared about
phonetics (I still care, a bit) I found John Wells's IPA Transcription
in Unicode page <http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-unicode.htm>
to be a handy pointer to stuff I could use.

I tend to use Andale Mono, from corefonts, which you can probably get
for your distro: <http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/>

cheers,
 Stewart
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