RE: Fonts

From: Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com
Date: Thu Oct 21 1999 - 09:45:35 EDT


Any URL where I could download just Arial Unicode alone?
Is it a regular TTF font: would it work under Windows NT 4.0 without
installing the whole Office 2000?
Does it have an avaluation license?

Thanks for any info.
Marco

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hart, Edwin F. [SMTP:Edwin.Hart@jhuapl.edu]
> Sent: 1999 October 21, Thursday 14.32
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: RE: Fonts
>
> Bitstream.com at one time made its CyberBit font available for free but I
> heard it is no longer available. This is a Roman faced font that had
> "most"
> of Unicode 1.1 and required about 11 MB of disk storage. (As I recall, it
> lacked several Indic scripts.)
>
> Office 2000 includes the Arial Unicode font for Unicode 2.1. It takes
> about
> 23.6 MB of disk. Office 2000 and Office 97 also include optional Unicode
> fonts for Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Unified
> CJK ideographic characters.
>
> Windows NT 3.5 had Lucida Sans Unicode, which contained glyphs for about
> 1700 characters. This font is still available in Windows NT 4.0. In
> addition, the Sun Java Development Kit has updated Lucida fonts.
>
> Finally, when Microsoft added support for the Euro, at least under Windows
> NT 4.0, it expanded the Unicode support for the Arial, Courier New, Times
> New Roman, and Tahoma fonts. While these cover only small subsets of the
> Unicode repertoire (e.g., no Unified CJK), Microsoft increased the size of
> the subset considerably.
>
> I cannot speak for the Apple Macintosh or other platforms.
>
> Ed Hart
>
> Edwin F. Hart
> edwin.hart@jhuapl.edu
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ilya Krel [mailto:maillist@shark.ddgn.com]
> Sent: Wed, October 20, 1999 23:34
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: Fonts
>
> Where do i get fonts for all those unicode stuff? for example for this
> character 25b2 which is a geometrical figure.



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