Subject: Re: [xsl] more encoding woe From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 12:47:03 -0600 (MDT) |
Andrew Welch wrote: > 1. Is there a standard font for unicode and where can I get it? (what > do you use?) If you have MS Office, you can pop in the CD and go to the installer, do a custom install and choose to add what I think it calls the 'international font' or some such.. this will install Arial Unicode MS. Alternatively, you can get it from http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/aruniupd.aspx I think there's a license issue with this, so you can't redistribute it, and you are expected to own MS Publisher 2000 (though it's not actually required to use the font). In theory, you shouldn't need a font that covers all of Unicode, if you have the coverage you need in different fonts. Generally a font is tuned for a particular writing system ('script') like Latin, Arabic, etc., and only has coverage for that script plus a little extra. Again in theory, the OS or an application can peek into the font files and know the character coverage for each font, so when the preferred font doesn't have a certain character, an alternate font from the same family can be used for just that one character. IE 5.0 and above for Windows does provide for this to some extent. The info at http://www.unicode.org/help/display_problems.html may also be of interest to you. - Mike ____________________________________________________________________________ mike j. brown | xml/xslt: http://skew.org/xml/ denver/boulder, colorado, usa | resume: http://skew.org/~mike/resume/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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