Could you give me a link to "Arial Unicode MS" font (or just email it to me)???

Question

go email it to me at celestechristopherATyahooD0Tcom, okay?

I'll give you ten points...

Answer 1

Arial Unicode was created and is still maintained by Ascender Corporation. See http://www.ascendercorp.com/arialunicode... . It may be purchased from them. Licensed versions come with Microsoft Office and with Macintosh OS X v10.5 and later. It cannot legally be given away for free.

However Arial Unicode only covers Unicode 2.1 while current Unicode is up to version 5.1. Accordingly there are now a lot of Latin characters missing from Arial Unicode, not to speak of characters from other writing systems and entire writing systems. And Arial Unicode has no italic or bold version.

Even the normal fonts that come with Windows Vista have far more Latin characters incuded than Arial Unicode. I refer to Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New, Tahoma, and the newly available font Segoe UI.

I suggest downloading the free DejaVu fonts instead from http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index... The regular sans serif face is the most complete, far more complete in respect to Latin characters included than is Arial Unicode.

For symbols, I reccomend the “Unicode Symbols” font which is free from http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/download.... , until the free STIX mathematical fonts come out, purportedly later this year.

For fonts which cover almost all the characters of all kinds in Unicode 5.1 you can obtain the Code 2000 series of fonts from http://www.code2000.net/ . The cost is $5.00 US for all of them. The characters are not very beautiful, but they are almost complete.

For non-Latin writing systems you are better off choosing fonts written by people who are experienced in work with those languages rather than choosing Arial Unicode.  See http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.ht... for lowcost or free fonts for many languages.