---
title: "Unicode Support"
output: rmarkdown::html_vignette
vignette: >
  %\VignetteIndexEntry{Unicode Support}
  %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown}
  %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8}
---

```{r, include = FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = FALSE,
  comment = "#>"
)
```

```{r setup}
library(lofifonts)
```



## Unicode support

Each font supports a different number of glyphs.  The vector fonts include
just the ASCII character sets.

The font with the best unicode coverage is the bitmap font `unifont` which supports
over 50 thousand glyphs.


## Font overview

| Type   | Name           | Unicode?              | # glyphs |
|--------|----------------|-----------------------|----------|
| Bitmap | Spleen         | Some                  | 450-1000 |
| Bitmap | Unifont        | Lots!                 | 57086    |
| Bitmap | Unscii         | Some                  | 3240     |
| Vector | gridfont       | Lower case ASCII only | 68       |
| Vector | gridfont_smooth| Lower case ASCII only | 68       |
| Vector | arcade         | Upper case ASCII only | 66       |


## Rendering with `unifont`

```{r unicode, fig.height = 3, fig.width = 8}
txt <- "二項分布\xF0\x9F\x8E\xB2の英語表記は\n「Binomial distribution」である。"

bitmap_text_raster(txt, "unifont") |>
  plot(interpolate = FALSE)
```


## Default character

When a particular unicode glyph is not available, some fonts define
a default character which should be used instead.

If a default character is not defined for a font then unknown characters
will use `?`


## Lists of supported codepoints

The unicode glyphs supported by each font are listed in the `font_info` data
structure.

```{r}
# Cozette font - number of codepoints and a list of the first 200
font_info$bitmap$`spleen-12x24`$codepoints |> 
  length()

font_info$bitmap$`spleen-12x24`$codepoints |> 
  head(60)

font_info$bitmap$`spleen-12x24`$codepoints |> 
  head(60) |>
  intToUtf8()

# Arcade font - includes 66 codepoints
font_info$vector$arcade$codepoints
intToUtf8(font_info$vector$arcade$codepoints)
```