Unicode font - Windows

[Janet Hill]

Can somebody recommend a suitable Unicode font that will display both in the Viewer Window and in a graph. From the Stata font help it would appear that I need a True Type monospaced font such as Courier New or Lucinda Sans Typewriter but I am unable to get these to do the correct rendering.


Janet

Stata 16.1 / IC

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

In Chapter 17 you will find a summary of which fonts are compatible with Stata (alternatively, -help winfonts-, -help macfonts-, -help unixfonts- for your OS type).

I've used FontSquirrel to look for fonts (bonus, these are free for commercial use). My personal preference for a good coding font that is monospace is Fantasque Sans Mono, but there are many other suitable fonts and your taste may not match mine. For the fonts displayed in graphs. I haven't bothered to change from default Arial for Graphs.

[Martyn Sherriff]

I have found that Deja Vu Sans Mono for Powerline fonts/DejaVuSansMono at master · powerline/fonts · GitHub to be quite well behaved with Unicode. There are some reports that it does not render ligatures correctly but I have not experienced them.

[Janet Hill]

Thank you both for your advice and I will try the fonts.
I was just surprised that Stata does not include a suitable Unicode font - or I am just misunderstanding the system (as usual).
Janet

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

This seems like something that falls under the operating system's scope, rather than Stata, as it provides a collection of fonts and will have default settings for internationalization/localization. My guess would be that Stata, like most programs, use the default system fonts, which you are free to change if the font you choose doesn't work for a particular language. For example, my machine is set up for an English language localization, but if I wanted to type in Russian or Chinese say, then the usual fonts would not necessarily suffice.