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Unicode: Unicode Fonts
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Unicode is a computing standard that supports the display of international character sets. To view catalog records with international characters, a Unicode-capable operating system, the appropriate Unicode fonts, and a Unicode-capable web browser are recommended.
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Thousands of fonts exist on the market, but fewer than a dozen fonts — sometimes described as "pan-Unicode" fonts — attempt to support the majority of Unicode's character repertoire. Instead, Unicode-based fonts typically focus on supporting only basic ASCII and particular scripts or sets of characters or symbols. Several reasons justify this approach: applications and documents rarely need to render characters from more than one or two writing systems; fonts tend to demand resources in computing environments; and operating systems and applications show increasing intelligence in regard to obtaining glyph information from separate font files as needed, i.e. font substitution. Furthermore, designing a consistent set of rendering instructions for tens of thousands of glyphs constitutes a monumental task; such a venture passes the point of diminishing returns for most typefaces.
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Different Unicode compliant fonts and applications provide different levels of support for combining diacriticals. For example, in most Linux distributions there is no support for placing combining diacriticals properly, and they are usually displayed (when they are displayed at all) as overstrikes, which (depending upon the design of the font) can be very difficult to read. The same situation applies in the browsers on all platforms. On the other hand, Microsoft Word for Windows 2000 can place combining diacriticals exactly where needed.
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A Unicode font must be installed on your computer to view roman characters with diacritics and South Asian characters. Please see Unicode Fonts for South Asian Languages created by the South Asia Language Resource Center. That site has reliable recommendations on browsers and fonts for use with South Asian materials. It ... includes information on how to install browsers and fonts, suggestions for configuring browsers, and a guide to keyboard settings and alternate keyboards for non-roman characters on Windows and Mac systems.
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Regarding the PCs (personal computers) with MS Windows operating systems, Gurmukhi Unicode fonts can only be used on those with Windows XP operating system. And only the programs designed to make use of Unicode standard can make use of these fonts. Many older versions of MS (Microsoft) Office cannot make use of Unicode fonts. Although MS Office 2000, XP, 2002 may display and print documents containing Gurmukhi-Unicode fonts, only MS Office 2003 has a full support for Unicode standard. Thus anyone who wants to edit documents with Unicode fonts on a PC with Windows XP must ... have MS Office 2003 or later. Thus anyone who wants to edit documents with Unicode fonts on a PC with Windows XP must also have MS Office 2003 or later.
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Code2000, a shareware Unicode font with over 34,000 characters, is available for free download ($5 if you keep it) by James Kass here. The quality is a little iffy (he's apparently not a font design professional), but it does have serifs for those who don't like the sans-serif version.
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