Useful tools when working with Unicode files when one doesn't know the writing system, doesn't have the necessary font, needs to inspect invisible characters, needs to find out whether characters have been combined or in what order they occur, or needs statistics on which characters occur.

This package includes BDF fonts to print Amharic, Arabic, Cantonese, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkish, and Vietnamese text as bit-mapped PostScript. To see these languages in X, you can use the xfonts-intl-* packages (among others).

This package ships the 10pt version of the various fonts. For the full set please install cm-super.

This package includes

This package downloads Mathematica fonts from http://support.wolfram.com/ and installs them, because the license prohibits their distribution. Please note that it may fail if the web site no longer offers them for download.

/efont/ is an X BDF font package for 10, 12, 14, 16, and 24 pixels which are encoded in Unicode. Though they are still under development, they contain various scripts including Latin, IPA, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Hebrew, Devanagari, Thai, Lao, Georgian, Runic, Hiragana, Katakana, Hangul Syllables, and part of Arabic, Bopomofo, CJK Ideogram, and various symbols.