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by cormullion 98 days ago
a single font can contain a maximum of about 65000 glyphs, but there are over 150000 defined Unicode glyphs, so a single font of last resort isn’t possible, unfortunately. Complete coverage would require multiple fonts.
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I've never looked into this in detail before, you're right, it looks like android has over 100. Although composite font representation is supposed to fix this.