Just continuing to go down the line of absolutely everything in this project to see if it could be improved for the next release, and I hit upon the font resource called Droid Sans Fallback which has been included with this project since we went Unicode. It’s basically a Unicode fallback font I kept in my back pocket for new languages. I never actually used it, but upon testing, it actually does a pretty dreadful job, so it’s going away.

So I’ve chosen a new Unicode fallback font for the next version, a customized version of the Noto Sans font (which is actually Google’s successor to Droid Sans) merged into a single file. The CJK flavor I’ve chosen is traditional Chinese, simply because I’ve already got all the major CJK languages covered with their own fonts, and any future CJK language support would have to be some regional Chinese dialect, which tend to favor traditional Chinese characters. Will I actually use this font? Probably not – but we could get a chance with the Tagalog subtitles, assuming there’s not a preferred font for Tagalog. But those who are on the lookout for a font covering a really wide range of the Unicode spec could do a lot worse.