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Re: Unicode & Font questions

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Subject: Re: Unicode & Font questions
From: Michael Diehr <md03 at xochi dot com>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:22:34 -0800
Cc: Joshua Hadley <joshua dot hadley at ascendercorp dot com>
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On Feb 19, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Joshua Hadley wrote:
>> I've read about "pan-unicode" fonts (a font that contains ALL glyphs
>> for all languages) -- great idea, but do they exist?
>
> Yes, they exist but generally as extras/add-ons -- not included in
> base installations of most popular operating systems. I have been
> personally involved in building several such fonts; the most notable
> being Arial Unicode MS which supports virtually all of the characters
> in Unicode 2.1. I can give you more info about this and other such
> fonts; please contact me off-list if you are interested.
>

Thanks Josh --

Do you know if the pan-Unicode font situation is improving in 10.5 or  
Vista?

In my situation, I need the installation to be a "clean" as possible,  
so installing fonts etc. is just not going to work.   Perhaps the  
(ugly) alternative would be to save the text as bitmaps on the  
author's machine, and just display it as a picture on the reader's  
machine.   The amount of text is rather small so the overall byte  
count is not really an issue.

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