LL-L "Resources" 2004.04.14 (04) [E]

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Resources

Folks,

As you know, we now use Unicode UTF-8 encoding, and the font Arial Unicode
is no longer freely available, is now a part of the latest commercial
Microsoft software packages.  You should have it if you bought Microsoft
Office programs recently.

There are other Unicode fonts, and none of the is "complete."  Here are a
couple of freely downloadable ones that may be of interest to you:

TITUS Cyberbit Basic (includes IPA, not Chinese, Korean and Japanese):
http://uk.geocities.com/BabelStone1357/Unicode/fonts.html#TITUSCyberbitBasic
http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/tituut.asp
At the downloading site you will be asked to "register" and to "sign" an
agreement to the effect that you are going not going to use the font for
commercial purposes. If you agree and comply with this, you may feel free to
write "Lowlands-L" under "Affiliation," since ours is a non-commercial
organization.

The following is a particularly nice font, beautiful enough for special
publications. It is a free font that is in the process of "growing" (thus
ought to be downloaded again periodically):

Gentium (includes IPA, not Chinese, Korean and Japanese):
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium

There is a nice online presentation about Unicode here:
http://home.att.net/~jameskass/

Finally, others may find my recent reply to Roger Hondshoven's question
about Unicode encoding useful:

From: Roger Hondshoven <roger.hondshoven at pandora.be>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2004.03.26 (01) [E]

Hello everybody,

I have a problem with the encoding tool "Unicode UTF-8. I don't see how I
can switch to it on my PC. Does someone have a solution. Thanks in advance.

Roger

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Technica

Moyen, Roger!

Others may turn out to be more helpful than I can be.  For now let me
mention that much depends on your email program.  Somewhere (usually under
"View" or "Format" and equivalents) there ought to be a menu item "Encoding"
(and equivalents).  If Unicode UTF-8 is not specified there, you ought to be
able to load it as one of the available encoding modes.  (You might find
this under "Tools" and "Options" (and equivalents).

You ought to consult your help program and look for information under
"encoding."

Your program might ask you what font to load when you go into Unicode UTF-8
mode. The best font for it at the moment is Arial Unicode.  It has the
largest number of characters, including extended Roman (yes, including Old
English and Old Saxon symbols), International Phonetic Alphabet, extended
Cyrillic, extended Greek, extended Hebrew, extended Arabic, Armenian,
Georgian, the major Indic scripts, Thai, Lao, Tibetan, Korean, Chinese,
Japanese and numerous scientific characters.  It used to be available free
of charge, but now it is a part of Microsoft software packages. (I was lucky
enough to have gotten it before commercialization.)   The latest version of
(single-spaced) Courier New is one of the so-so substitutes.

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Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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