Needed: Programmer font with great Unicode coverage

Subject line says it all: I need a font that:
1) is excellent for source code files (especially Java, obviously)
2) has glyphs for most Unicode characters (specifically, the first 65,536 ones, that is the [Basic Multilingual Plane|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Multilingual_Plane#Basic_Multilingual_Plane])
It would be most excellent if the font is truly free and available on all major platforms.
Here are the minimal requirements for a good programming font:
1) monospaced
2) extremely readable, even at small font sizes
3) all unique characters are readily distinguishable, especially in the Basic Latin subset usually used in source code. In particular:
     a) o, O, and 0 (with zero preferably having a slash thru it, or at least a dot inside it)
     b) l, 1, I, | (ells, ones, capital eyes and vertical bar; and | shouldn't look like ! with a signle white pixel but must be more distinguishable)
     c) clear punctuation characters, especially braces, parenthesis and brackets
4) proper sizing and alignment. In particular:
     a) operator symbols: * should not be raised relative to +/-; the same is true of ~; all these should align with =
     b) % should be cap height
     c) ", &, and ' should be straight, not angled or curved
     d) & must not become gray when antialiased at small ppm
     e) - must not be too short; en-dashes aren't typically used in programming
     f) bracketing chars have to align reasonably with both lower case and capitals.
     g) glyphs should not draw outside their metric bounds
     h) underscore must be at the baseline instead of hanging beneath, which most fonts wrongly choose and make words jarringly ugly
I did some web searching before doing this posting, and was frustrated by what I found.
There are many alleged programmer fonts
[http://keithdevens.com/wiki/ProgrammerFonts]
[http://www.advogato.org/article/867.html]
[http://www.lowing.org/fonts/]
[http://peterc.org/2008/61-liberation-mono-ultimate-coding-source-code-font.html]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas]
but all look like they have poor unicode coverage.
There are several unicode fonts
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_fonts#List_of_Unicode_fonts]
[http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/fonts/unicode.html#fonts]
but most are not monospaced or have poor coverage or are not free. For instance, these monospaced fonts lack Chinese unicode coverage:
[http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/]
[http://www.evertype.com/emono/]
and these monospaced fonts (which appear to have even Chinese unicode coverage) are not free:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andale_Mono#Andale_Mono_WT]
[Ascender UniDuo|http://www.ascendercorp.com/fonts/multilingual/ascender-uni/ ]
[This posting|http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg17127.html] alleges
"There is no free monospaced font covering Unicode"
Please prove him wrong by showing me a font that has what we all need!

[This stackoverflow.com question|http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4689/recommended-fonts-for-programming] has some pretty good points.
Regarding the Unicode coverage: I doubt that you'll find a good bitmap font there, as it's simply too much.
But then again, a reasonable font rendering framework will substitute the font for a similar one if some glyph can't be rendered in the chosen font (at least fontconfig/GTK+ on Linux does that).

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[img=http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/8401/snapshot1zh9.th.png]
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I am working on a project at work, and I am not the best programmer in the world. I have been trying to get my head around this for a couple of days and just cannot get it to work.
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import java.io.*;*
*public class PlayingWithThreads1 {*
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* PipedOutputStream outputPipe = new PipedOutputStream();*
* ObjectOutputStream oos = null;*
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* Thread t = new Thread(rt);*
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System.out.println(e);*
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//Thread t = new Thread(rt);*
//t.start();*
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class that contains control or status information */
try
if (!oos.equals(null))
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catch (IOException e)
try
Thread.sleep(5000);
catch (InterruptedException e)
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package playingwiththreads1;
import java.io.*;
public class ReceiverThread implements Runnable {
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public void run()
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try
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catch (IOException e)
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Thanks for the help, but that did not work. I tried flushing the ObjectOutputStream and it is still hanging when initializing the thread.
Here is a better look at the code since I was helped to figure out how to insert it:
The main method:
package playingwiththreads1;
import java.io.*;
public class PlayingWithThreads1 {
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        ObjectOutputStream oos = null;
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        catch (IOException e)
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         * class that contains control or status information */
        try
            if (!oos.equals(null))
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}The thread code:
package playingwiththreads1;
import java.io.*;
public class ReceiverThread implements Runnable {
    private PipedInputStream inputPipe = new PipedInputStream();
    private ObjectInputStream inputObject;
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        try
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