Unicode font support for all languages/characters?

From: Kalon Mills (cwbugs_at_byu.edu)
Date: 02/20/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:10:54 -0700

Hello,

If you can shed any light on a solution to my problem, I appreciate it.
  (Even third party solutions.)

Problem:
I have an app that serves as a translation dictionary viewer. I have
many of my own databases that store the word translations in unicode. I
need the ability to display any of these languages. Right now it works
just fine with languages such as English, French, Italian, etc.
But I also have translation dictionaries for Chinese, Japanese, Thai,
Arabic, Greek, and more. They don't display correctly. I don't know if
that means that I just need a font that has all the glyphs for the
unicode set or if I need something more. Also I need a compact font,
unlike the Arial Unicode MS (22MB).

Questions:
Do I just need a font?
Where can I get one that I can distribute with my program?
What about bi-directional language support?

Specs:
I do not need to get special character input. I only want to display
these characters. I am currently using evc++ 3.0 and have a project
targeted for the Pocket PC 2002 platform. I am not using MFC.

Background:
I originally wrote this program for Palm OS. Palm OS doesn't have
native support for Unicode so I used a third party software
(twinypalm.com) to display text. With thier fonts and library it only
came to about 1.5 MB. Now in porting the application over to pocket pc
I have the unicode display problem.

Once again, any help is appreciated.
Kalon

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