The long, tortuous and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font
Are there any Unicode experts here?<p>I&#x27;ve been exchanging emails with Richard Cook (the Unihan maintainer) about getting some &quot;rare&quot; Taiwanese characters added to Unicode. I say &quot;rare&quot; because they&#x27;re in the Bible, which I think should be covered as a basic text (it&#x27;s the most-read book in the world!)<p>My research into word spacing, font issues, and more is covered on the blog at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pingtype.github.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pingtype.github.io</a> (click the Docs or Blog header). Practical suggestions for better web design are also welcome.<p>Regarding fonts, this is my specific rant that made me move from Heiti to Pingfang. Unfortunately forcing users to download 13 MB of Pingfang font was too slow for mobile, so I decided to disable it for the web version of Pingtype.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pingtype.github.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;glyphErrors.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pingtype.github.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;glyphErrors.html</a><p>Edit: These are the IDS codes of the missing characters. 
Photo evidence from a paper Bible:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;150180606@N08&#x2F;sets&#x2F;72157693398863955" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;150180606@N08&#x2F;sets&#x2F;72157693398...</a><p>　	⿱髟煮	chhang.jpg Job 39:19, Job 4:15<p>	⿸疒粒not𤷟	liap.jpg 1Sa 5:6, 1Sa 5:9, 1Sa 5:12 ... (17 found) - also see WikiSource.<p>	⿱⿳亠口冖足 37106亮足 	lo-.jpg Deu 1:28, Deu 2:10, Deu 9:2<p>　	⿰牜周	tiau.jpg 1Ch 17:7, 1Sa 24:3, 2Ch 14:15 (25 found, although 2Ch 14:15 uses 牧 in the paper version)