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Unicode: Unicode Fonts
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Even though Windows 95 and Windows 98 are not Unicode based, they do provide some limited Unicode functionality. Drawing of Unicode text is possible because the TrueType fonts that are used by Windows are encoded using Unicode. Therefore, a small subset of Win32 functions have wide character (Unicode) equivalents that are implemented in Windows 95. To review the list of these functions that was first published for Windows 95 see the white paper listed in the "References" section of this article.
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Monotype Imaging offers Andale Mono WT, a pan-Unicode monospaced font with the same design as the free Andale Mono font. There are four versions that cover the entire Unicode 3.0 range: Andale Mono WT J (Japanese), Andale Mono WT K (Korean), Andale Mono WT S (Simplified Chinese), Andale Mono WT T (Traditional Chinese). There is ... a set of two fonts: Andale Mono WTG and Andale Mono WTG Surrogate, with the entire Unicode 3.2 range. Those fonts are also distributed e.g. by Ricoh (google for Andale Mono WT for more details).
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You can use Unicode to display the characters in different languages or technical symbols. For characters to be displayed properly, a client such as Mozilla Firefox or Netscape needs to support Unicode. Moreover, an appropriate Unicode font must be available to the client, and the client platform must support Unicode. Often, Unicode fonts do not display all the Unicode characters. Some platforms, such as Windows 95, provide partial support for Unicode.
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Most recent Web browsers, such as Internet Explorer 5.x and up and Netscape 6.2 and up, are Unicode-compliant. Firefox and Safari will work as well. Netscape and Firefox have better Unicode support than Internet Explorer; this is especially true if you don't have the Arial Unicode MS font (mentioned below). If characters are not displaying properly, check the settings for character encoding (usually in the browser's view menu) or fonts (usually in the preferences menu). The encoding for the Library catalog pages is Unicode/UTF-8; the Web browser should detect this automatically.
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There are thousands of fonts on the market, but fewer than a dozen fonts attempt to support the majority of Unicode's character repertoire; these fonts are sometimes described as pan-Unicode. Instead, Unicode based fonts typically focus on supporting only basic ASCII and particular scripts or sets of characters or symbols. There are several reasons for this: applications and documents rarely need to render characters from more than one or two writing systems; fonts tend to be resource hogs in computing environments; and operating systems and applications are becoming increasingly intelligent in regard to obtaining glyph information from separate font files as they are needed. Furthermore, it is a monumental task to design a consistent set of rendering instructions for tens of thousands of glyphs; such a venture passes the point of diminishing returns.
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Probably the best place to start is Alan Wood's excellent Unicode and Multilingual Support in HTML, Fonts, Web Browsers and Other Applications site. Also on the Unicode web site there is a What is Unicode? document that has been translated into many languages.
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