Unicode 5.1 Cyrillic fonts

[David J. Birnbaum]

Dear Colleagues,

FYI.

Sincerely,

David
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Dear fellow Slavists,

at the beginning of April, Unicode version 5.1 has been officially released.
This version offers dozens of additional Cyrillic characters - historical
characters as well as ones for non-Slavic languages. UC 5.1 also adds many
additional Latin characters especially for medievalists etc.

If you want to take a look at all the new Cyrillic additions, please refer to
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3194.pdf

I am please to announce the release of v. 3 of my RomanCyrillic Std font
which can be downloaded - as before - from the following page:

http://kodeks.uni-bamberg.de/AKSL/Schrift/RomanCyrillicStd.htm

This new version supports Unicode 5.1 in all relevant areas (Latin,
Phonetics, Cyrillic, Diacritics, Punctuation, Editorial Marks etc.) and adds
more than 1.000 new characters for a total of now more than 3.500 characters.

This is also the first version of the font to make extensive use of OpenType
Features. If your application supports such features (like Adobe InDesign
and many more - in the future) you will have access to a hundred altenate
character shapes - historical Cyrillic characters, to precomposed accented
letters, Slavic numbers, ligatures etc., all without using the Private Use
Area of Unicode.

The companion font, Kliment Std, will be available soon, too, in a UC 5.1
compliant version.

Please feel free to forward my post to other suitable lists and/or
colleagues who might be interested.

Sebastian Kempgen
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* Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kempgen
* University of Bamberg, Chair of Slavic Linguistics
* 96045 Bamberg/Germany
* Tel. +49 - 951 - 863 2107, Fax: +49 - 951 - 863 2108
* http://www.uni-bamberg.de/slavling
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