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	Topics Arial Unicode MS Topic Home In digital typographyTypography Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type using a combination of fonts, font size, line ... , the TrueTypeTrueType TrueType is an outline font standard originally developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Typ... font Arial Unicode MS is an extended version of the fontTypeface In typography, a typeface consists of a coordinated set of glyphs designed with stylistic unity.... ArialArial Arial, sometimes marketed as Arial MT, is a typeface and a computer font packaged with Microsoft Windows, other Micros... . Compared to Arial, it includes higher line height, omits kerning pairKerning In typography, kerning, or less commonly, mortising, is the process of adjusting letter spacing in a proportional font.... s and adds enough glyphs to cover a large subset of UnicodeUnicode Unicode is an industry standard designed to allow text and symbols from all of the writing systems of the world to be consis... 2.1—thus supporting most MicrosoftMicrosoft company_name = Microsoft Corporation\| company_logo = ... code pageCode page Code page is the traditional IBM term used for a specific character encoding table: a mapping in which a sequence of bits, u... s, but also requiring much more storageComputer storage Summary Computer storage, computer memory, and often casually memory refer to computer components, devices and recording... space (22 megabyteMegabyte A megabyte is a unit of information or computer storage equal to approximately one million bytes.... s). It also adds IdeographicIdeogram Overview An ideogram or ideograph is a graphical symbol that represents an idea, rather than a group of letters arranged according t... layout tables, but unlike Arial, it mandates no smoothingAnti-aliasing In digital signal processing, anti-aliasing is the technique of minimizing aliasing when representing a high-resolution sign... in the 14–18 pointPoint (typography) A point is a unit of measure in typography.... range, and contains Roman (upright) glyphs only; there is no oblique version. Arial Unicode MS is normally distributed with Microsoft OfficeMicrosoft Office Microsoft Office is a suite of productivity programs created or purchased by Microsoft and developed for Microsoft Windows,... , but it is also bundled with Mac OS X v10.5Mac OS X v10.5 Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard" is the upcoming sixth major release of the Mac OS X operating system for Apple's Macintosh computer... and later. It may also be purchased separately (as Arial Unicode) from Ascender CorporationAscender Corporation Ascender Corporation is a digital typeface foundry and software development company located in the Chicago suburb of Elk Gro... , who licenses the font from Microsoft. When rendered with the same engine and without making adjustments for the different font metrics, the glyphs that appear in both Arial and Arial Unicode MS appear to be slightly wider, and thus rounder, in Arial Unicode MS. Horizontal text may also appear to have more inter-line spacing in Arial Unicode MS. This is due to larger bounding boxes (Arial Unicode MS needs more room for some of its extended glyphs) and the limitations of renderers, not changes in the glyph shapes. The lack of kerning pairs in Arial Unicode MS may also affect inter-glyph spacing in some renderers. History and availability Arial was designed by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders in 1982 and was released as TrueType font in 1990. From 1993 to 1999, it was extended as Arial Unicode MS (with its first release as a TrueType font in 1998) by the following members of Monotype TypographyMonotype Corporation Summary Monotype Imaging, Inc is a typesetting and typeface design company responsible for many developments in printing technology ... 's Monotype Type Drawing Office, under contract to Microsoft: Brian Allen, Evert Bloemsma, Jelle Bosma, Joshua Hadley, Wallace Ho, Kamal Mansour, Steve Matteson, and Thomas Rickner. From mid-2001 through mid-2002, Arial Unicode MS was also available as a separate download for licensed users of the standalone version of Microsoft PublisherFacts About Microsoft Publisher Microsoft Publisher is a desktop publishing application from Microsoft.... 2000 SR-1, which did not ship with the font. The freely downloadable version was withdrawn after Microsoft Publisher 2002, which included the font, began shipping. The withdrawal coincided with the withdrawal of the free downloads of Microsoft's "Core fonts for the WebCore fonts for the Web Core fonts for the Web was a project started by Microsoft in 1996 to make a standard pack of fonts for the Internet.... ". Numerous companies, organizations, educational establishments and even governments were directing users to the download without referencing the need for a valid Publisher or Office license or any Microsoft operating system. Monotype Imaging still owns the Arial and Arial Unicode MS trademarks, but Microsoft once retained exclusive licensing rights to the fonts. On 2005-04-11, Ascender CorporationAscender Corporation Ascender Corporation is a digital typeface foundry and software development company located in the Chicago suburb of Elk Gro... announced it had entered an agreement with Microsoft which enables Ascender to distribute Microsoft fonts, including the Windows Core Fonts, the Microsoft Web Fonts and the many multilingual fonts currently supplied by Microsoft. Called Arial Unicode, it is sold for approximately $United States dollar Summary For details of current paper money and coins, see Federal Reserve Note and United States coinage.... 99 per 5 users. The font is also apparently licensed to Apple, who announced on October 16, 2007 that the next version of their flagship operating system, Mac OS X v10.5Mac OS X v10.5 Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard" is the upcoming sixth major release of the Mac OS X operating system for Apple's Macintosh computer... ("Leopard"), would be bundled with Arial Unicode. Interestingly, Leopard is also slated to ship with previously Microsoft-only fonts, including Microsoft Sans Serif, TahomaTahoma (typeface) Tahoma is a sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter for the Microsoft Corporation in 1999.... and WingdingsWingdings Wingdings is a TrueType dingbat font included in all versions of Microsoft Windows starting with version 3.1.... . Monotype Imaging currently also licenses Arial Unicode on its own. It was also bundled by Monotype as part of iPhone Compatibility Font Set. Versions Version 0.84 was supplied with Microsoft Office 2000 and the standalone versions of that suite's applications—except Publisher 2000 SR-1. It includes 51180 glyphs (38911 characters), supports 32 code pages, and contains Latin and Han Ideographic OpenTypeOpenType OpenType is a scalable computer font format initially developed by Microsoft, later joined by Adobe Systems.... layout tables. The code pages supported are 1250 (Latin 2: East Europe), 1251 (Cyrillic), 1252 (Latin 1), 1253 (Greek), 1254 (Turkish), 1255 (Hebrew), 1256 (Arabic), 1257 (Windows Baltic), Code page 1258 (Vietnamese), 437Code page 437 IBM PC or MS-DOS code page 437, often abbreviated CP437 and also known as DOS-US or OEM-US, is the origina... (US), 708 (Arabic; ASMO 708), 737Code page 737 Code page 737 is a code page to be used under MS-DOS to write Greek language.... (Greek), 775Code page 775 Code page 775 is a code page to be used under MS-DOS to write the Estonian, Lithuanian and Latvian languages. ... (MS-DOS Baltic), 850Code page 850 Code page 850 is a code page that was used in western Europe, under systems such as DOS.... (WE/Latin 1), 852Code page 852 Code page 852 is a code page to be used under MS-DOS with Central European languages that use Latin script.... (Latin 2), 855Code page 855 CP855 is a Cyrillic code page to be used under MS-DOS.... (IBM Cyrillic; primarily Russian), 857Code page 857 Code page 857 is a code page to be used under MS-DOS to write Turkish language.... (MS-DOS IBM Turkish), 860Code page 860 Code page 860 is a code page to be used under MS-DOS to write Portuguese language. ... (MS-DOS Portuguese), 861Code page 861 Code page 861 is a code page to be used under MS-DOS to write the Icelandic language. ... (MS-DOS Icelandic), 862Code page 862 Overview Code page 862 is a code page for Hebrew under DOS.... (Hebrew), 863Code page 863 Code page 863 is a code page to be used under MS-DOS to write French language. ... (MS-DOS Canadian French), 864 (Arabic), 865Code page 865 Code page 865 is a code page to be used under MS-DOS with Nordic languages.... (MS-DOS Nordic), 866Code page 866 CP866 is a Cyrillic code page to be used with MS-DOS.... (MS-DOS Russian), 869Code page 869 Code page 869 is a code page to be used under MS-DOS to write Greek language.... (IBM Greek), 874 (Thai), 932Code page 932 Code page 932 is Microsoft's extension of Shift_JIS to include NEC special characters, NEC selection of IBM extensions, and ... (JIS/Japan), 936 (Chinese: Simplified), 949Code page 949 Code page 949 is Microsoft's implementation that appears similar to KSC 5601.... (Korean Wansung), 950Code page 950 Summary Code page 950 is Microsoft's implementation of the defacto standard Big5.... (Chinese: Traditional), "Macintosh Character Set" (US Roman), and "Windows OEM Character SetCode page 437 Overview IBM PC or MS-DOS code page 437, often abbreviated CP437 and also known as DOS-US or OEM-US, is the origina... ". It covers all code points containing non-control characters in Unicode 2.0. Version 0.86 has the same coverage and support as 0.84. Versions 1.00 and 1.01 were supplied with Microsoft Office 2002 (Microsoft Office XP), Microsoft Office 2003 and the standalone versions of those suites' applications. It includes 50,377 glyphs (38,917 characters), which reduces Combining Diacritical Marks to 72, increases Miscellaneous Technical characters to 123, increases Private Use Area characters to 43, reduces Spacing Modifier Letters to 57. 1361 (Korean Johab) was added. It adds layout tables for Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kana (Hiragana & Katakana), Kannada, and Tamil. Its Han Ideographic tables were updated to support vertical writing. It covers all code points containing non-control characters in Unicode 2.1. Bugs All versions of Arial Unicode MS deal with double-width diacritic charactersDiacritic A diacritical mark or diacritic, sometimes called an accent mark, is a mark added to a letter to alter a word's ... incorrectly, drawing them too far to the left by one character width. According to the combining double diacritics go between the two characters to be marked. However, to make text look correct in Arial Unicode MS, the double-width diacritic must be placed after both characters to be marked. This means that it is not possible to make text that renders these characters correctly in both Arial Unicode MS and in other (correctly designed) Unicode fonts. This bug affects the rendering of text written in the International Phonetic AlphabetFacts About International Phonetic Alphabet The International Phonetic Alphabet is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists.... and in ALA-LC Romanization for non-Latin-script languages. The letters in Latin small ligatures fi, fl, ffi, ffl, long st, st are not connected, except for the two f's in the ffi and ffl ligatures. However, there is nothing mandating that these must be connected - while they are indistinguishable from the individual letters placed next to each other, there is no semantic difference between the ligature and the individual characters. The Arabic Five Pointed Star (U+066D) has 6 points instead of 5. See also Other well-known fonts with Unicode coverage include Bitstream CyberbitBitstream Cyberbit *Bitstream Cyberbit* is a commercial Unicode font designed by Bitstream Inc.... , TITUS Cyberbit Basic, Code2000Code2000 *Code2000* is a digital font which includes characters and symbols from a very large range of writing systems.... , Doulos SILDoulos SIL , it is licensed under the [[SIL... , Lucida Sans UnicodeLucida Sans Unicode In digital typography, Bigelow & Holmes Inc.'s Lucida Sans Unicode OpenType font is designed to support the most commonl... , Free software Unicode typefacesFree software Unicode typefaces A few projects exist to provide free software Unicode typefaces, i.e.... , and Unicode fontsUnicode typefaces Unicode typefaces contains wide range of characters, letters, digits, glyphs, symbols, ideograms, logograms, etc, which are ... . External links Font catalogue entries: (1.01), (0.84), , .