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So I was looking at this answer on stackoverflow and realized that my fonts aren't covering a whole lot of the utf-8 unicode spectrum (as I get lots of squares). Does anyone know a font that will cover all of that post?

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not an answer to exactly your Q, but I noted a utility to conveniently list the fonts (installed) that support the orthogrphy of a given language, eg fc-list :lang=kv family, and then one can query for the corresponding files, pkgs, URLs, so that one can help others needing the fonts. – imz -- Ivan Zakharyaschev May 30 '11 at 0:59

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The hands-down most comprehensive coverage would be Roman Czyborra’s GNU Unicode font project. It is intended to collect a complete and free 8×16/16×16 pixel Unicode font. It currently covers over 34,000 characters (out of ~40,000+ defined characters).

Most distributions have Gnu Unifont in their repositories.

There is a comprehensive list of unicode fonts Unicode Font Guide For Free/Libre Open Source Operating Systems here: http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/

Some more common fonts with good unicode support include DejaVu and Free.

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