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Unicode Fonts and Keyboard Layouts

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• Large Fonts
  • Arial Unicode MS:  "The font Arial Unicode MS is a full Unicode font, containing all of the approximately 40,000 alphabetical characters, ideographic characters, and symbols defined in the Unicode 2.1 standard.  Because of its considerable size and the typographic compromises required to make such a font, Arial Unicode MS should be used only when you can't use multiple fonts tuned for different writing systems." (Quoted from Microsoft's Arial Unicode MS Font for Publisher 2000 page.)
    • Arial Unicode MS: was available from Microsoft Office Update till August 12, 2002.
    • Installing the universal font
  • Bitstream Cyberbit:  a 13 MB Unicode font downloadable from Netscape
    • Search for (c)bits98.txt to find Netscape mirrors with the latest version of  Cyberbit.
  • Code2000 & Code2001:  Code2000 is a Unicode font covering more than 33 000 characters of the Basic Multilingual Plain.  Code2001 is an experimental font of Plain 1 scripts.
  • TITUS Cyberbit Basic:  a Unicode font for linguists and philologists with a lot of user defined characters

• Microsoft Typography
  • TrueType core fonts for the Web:  now distributed by the CoreFonts project
  • More Euro Enabled Fonts for Microsoft Office 2000  (Tahoma is outdated)
  • Publisher 2000 Update: More Euro Enabled Fonts
  • Windows Keyboard Layouts

• International Keyboard Layouts
  • Keyman Unicode keyboards:  more and more keyboard layouts for more and more languages, including Burmese, Classical Greek, Coptic, Dinka, Esperanto, Georgian, Greek, Hawaiian, Igbo, Latin, Maltese, Maori, Nepali, Persian, Sahelian, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tengwar, Yiddish, Yolngu and Yoruba.  You need Keyman 5.0 or later to use them.
  • MultiKey:  Stefan Hagel's free utility to type Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic and other languages in Microsoft Word
  • UniKey:  type all Latin-based Unicode characters on a US keyboard.

African

These fonts and keyboard layouts are for Latin-based scripts.  Click here for Ge'ez / Ethiopic.

• Free Fonts
  • Gentium (plain & italic) by Victor Gaultney
  • jGaramond (plain, bold, & italic) by Jan Thor
  • Thryomanes Unicode (plain, bold, italic, & bold-italic) by Herman Miller
  • TITUS Cyberbit Basic
  • Phil Chastney's SImPL.TTF
• The Open Road language support:  Andrew Cunningham's free keyboard layouts for Dinka, Fula, and Hausa

Arabic

• Arabic for Western Windows at this site
• Hebrew and Arabic in MSIE and WordPad

Australian Aboriginal

• Free Fonts
  • Gentium (plain & italic) by Victor Gaultney
  • jGaramond (plain, bold, & italic) by Jan Thor
  • Thryomanes Unicode (plain, bold, italic, & bold-italic) by Herman Miller
  • TITUS Cyberbit Basic
  • Phil Chastney's SImPL.TTF
• The Open Road language support:  Andrew Cunningham's free keyboard layouts for Yolngu-matha

Canadian Syllabics

• Language Geek:  Chris Harvey's Aboriginal Serif Unicode font with Keyman keyboards
• Tiro Syllabic Home Page
  • Syllabic Fonts Download Page
  • Inuktitut Keyboard Layout for Windows NT4/2000/XP
• Inuktitut computing and Unicode: a new beginning

Cyrillic

• Cyrillic for Western Windows at this site
• Russification of Your Computer
• Windows Cyrillic Fonts and Keyboard Drivers
• Cyrillic in MS Windows by Paul Gorodyansky
• MultiKey:  Stefan Hagel's free keyboard utility for Microsoft Word

Esperanto

• Esperanto Unicode Keyboard at this site
• Eo doc (unicode).dot:  Bill Walker's template for Microsoft Word with Klivo Lindon's spelling checker
• EK (Esperanta Klavaro):  Esperanto language pack to replace an unused codepage
• MultiKey:  Stefan Hagel's free keyboard utility for Microsoft Word

Ge'ez / Ethiopic

• Free fonts
  • Ethiopia Jiret by SenaMirmir
  • GF Zemen Unicode by the Ge'ez Frontier Foundation
  • GS GeezMahtemUnicode by Phonetic Systems
  • Visual Geez Unicode by Custor Computing
• Free keyboard layouts for Keyman by the Ge'ez Frontier Foundation
  • Amharic Unicode EZ
  • Tigrigna.ER Unicode EZ
  • Tigrigna.ET Unicode EZ
• Unicode Ge'ez:  a free typing tool by Robert D. Van Buskirk
  • UniGeez ftp archive
• Shareware packages
  • GeezWord by Phonetic Systems
  • Visual Geez by Custor Computing

Greek

• Free Packages
  • Galatia SIL Greek Unicode Fonts with keyboard layouts for Keyman 5 and 6
• Free Font Families
  • Gentium (plain & italic) by Victor Gaultney
  • Caslon (plain, bold, italic, small caps) and Monospace (plain, bold, oblique) by George Williams
  • jGaramond (plain, bold, italic) by Jan Thor
  • Thryomanes Unicode (plain, bold, italic, bold-italic) by Herman Miller
• Free Fonts
  • Porson and Georgia Greek Unicode by Richard G. Spaulding, Jr.
  • TITUS Cyberbit Basic
  • Cardo by David Perry
  • Aisa Unicode packed in Stefan Hagel's MultiKey
• Free keyboard layouts for Keyman
  • Classical Greek Unicode by Manuel A. Lopez
  • Greek Polytonic Unicode by David Perry
• Free keyboard utility
  • MultiKey by Stefan Hagel
• Shareware packages
  • Antioch:  Ralph Hancock's Vusillus Old Face font with keyboard and conversion macros for Microsoft Word
  • Polytonistis:  Magenta's writing tool for Word with Bitstream's polytonic Greek fonts
  • Ukeys for Word):  a keyboard macro for Microsoft Word created (but no longer supported) by Manuel A. Lopez
• Beta Testing
  • BibleScript Unicode:  Galaxie Software's Unicode font with Greek and Hebrew Keyman keyboards

Hebrew

• Hebrew for Western Windows at this site
• Hebrew fonts with Keyman keyboard layouts
  • SIL Hebrew Unicode Fonts
  • Type for Scholars by David Perry
  • BibleScript Unicode
• Hebrew and Arabic in MSIE and WordPad
• Sivan Toledo's Hebrew Keyboard Layout

IPA Phonetic

• SIL Unicode IPA Font with Keyman keyboard layouts
• Free Font Families
  • Gentium (plain & italic) by Victor Gaultney
  • Caslon (plain, bold, italic, small caps) and Monospace (plain, bold, oblique) by George Williams
  • jGaramond (plain, bold, italic) by Jan Thor
  • Junicode (plain, bold, italic) by Peter Baker
  • Thryomanes Unicode (plain, bold, italic, bold-italic) by Herman Miller
• Free Fonts
  • TITUS Cyberbit Basic
  • Cardo by David Perry
  • SImPL.TTF by Phil Chastney

Lao

• JG Lao:  five Unicode Lao fonts with Pali letters by Jason Glavy
• Saysettha Unicode:  a Unicode font by John M. Durdin

Maltese

• Maltese for Windows at this site
• MSA 100:2002 keyboard driver for Windows 2000, XP and NT 4.0
• Maltese Language Support for MS-Word
• MultiKey:  Stefan Hagel's free keyboard utility for Microsoft Word
• Maltese Keyboard for Linux by Ramon Casha

Myanmar (Burmese)

• Myazedi Myanmar Unicode Information Center

Persian

• Nesf2:  a free Persian Unicode font
• Borna Ranayeh Parsa Fonts
• Fix for Windows 2000/XP Farsi keyboard layout
• FarsiWeb keyboard layout with Persian digits
• Unicode Persian in Windows 95/98/ME
• Farsi Keyboard Layout for Arabic Windows 9x

Sindhi

• Pakistani Typography
• Sindhi Computing

Urdu

• Urdu Nastaliq Unicode

Vietnamese

• How to create Vietnamese Unicode documents (mirror)
• Download Vietnamese fonts from VietUnicode, TTi or BuddhaSasana
• Download VPSKeys from VPS or PhapViet.com
• Vietnamese Unicode FAQs

Yi

• SIL Yi Font

Yiddish

• Yiddish for Windows at this site
• A users' guide to Yiddish on the Internet by Susannah R. Juni
• Understanding Yiddish Information Processing

Other Fonts and Keyboard Layouts

• Fontboard Linguistic Fonts:  diacritics and special characters for Hungarian, Uralic, Altaic, Slavic and Proto-Indo-European at this site
• Baraha:  read and write Kannada, Hindi, Sanskrit and Marathi
• Betűkészletek:  precomposed characters for Hungarian dialectologists, Finno-Ugrists and Turcologists
• Dr. Berlin's Foreign Font Archive:  a huge collection of pre-Unicode fonts
• FONTana Type Foundry:  historical and original typefaces
• Keyman keyboards:  more and more keyboard layouts for more and more languages, including Bengali, Burmese, Cheyenne, Esperanto, French, Hawaiian, Hindi, IPA, Lao, Maltese, Maori, Sanskrit, Tamil, Yiddish and Yoruba.  You need Keyman 5.0 or later to use them.
• KickKeys:  Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Assamese and Cyrillic transliteration software
• Language Stuff:  Jason Glavy's East Asian, African and Jindai Moji fonts
• LatinKey:  type Latin-based languages by using only ten diacritic keys
• Myriad's Font-O'-Rama:  Ugaritic and Phoenician Moabite fonts by David Rosenbaum
• RK Fonts  Greek, Sanskrit, Meroitic, Ugaritic and Persian Cuneiform fonts by Reinhold Kainhofer
• Rovásírás:  Hungarian rune fonts by Dr. Gábor Hosszú
• Scriptorium:  scribal and epigraphic fonts from Early Phoenician to Gothic Textura Quadrata by Jack Kilmon
• SIL Fonts:  Greek, Hebrew, biblical text apparatus, IPA, Tai Dam and Tai Lü fonts

Font Tools

• FontLab (mirror)
• High-Logic's Font Creator Program
• Macromedia Fontographer
• Microsoft Typography
  • Font Properties Extension
  • Font Properties Editor
  • Font Validator
  • Visual OpenType Layout Tool
  • Web Embedding Fonts Tool
• Softy

Keyboard Remappers

• Janko's Keyboard Generator
• Keyboard Layout Manager  (mirror)
• Marczi's Keyboard Remapper
• Tavultesoft Keyman and Keyman Developer