About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Free software Unicode typefaces, OCR-A font, Arial Unicode MS, Everson Mono, DejaVu fonts, Liberation fonts, Code2000, WenQuanYi, GNU Unifont, STIX Fonts project, Cambria, Fallback font, Computer Modern, Junicode, Droid, Free UCS Outline Fonts, Ubuntu Font Family, M+ Fonts, Gentium, Bitstream Cyberbit, Lucida Grande, New Gulim, Chandas, Linux Libertine, Caslon Roman, Greek Font Society, Tiresias, Charis SIL, OCR-B, Lucida Sans Unicode, Alphabetum, Doulos SIL, Monospace, Beteckna, HyperFont, Unihan font, Asana-Math, ClearlyU, Taigi Unicode, Ebrima, Nyala. Excerpt: A Unicode typeface (also known as UCS font and Unicode font) is a typeface that contains a wide range of characters, letters, digits, glyphs, symbols, ideograms, logograms, etc., which are collectively mapped into the standard Universal Character Set, derived from many different languages and scripts from around the world. Unlike most conventional computer fonts, which are specific to a particular language or legacy character set and contain only a small subset of the UCS characters, these fonts attempt to include many thousands of possible glyphs, so that they can be used as a single typeface across multi-lingual documents. The Unicode standard does not specify or create the font (typeface), a collection of graphical shapes called glyphs, itself. Rather, it defines the abstract characters as a specific number (known as a codepoint) and also defines the required changes of shape depending on the context the glyph is used in (e.g., Combining characters, precomposed characters and letter-diacritic combinations). The choice of font, which governs how the abstract UCS characters are converted into a bitmap or vector output that can be viewed on a screen or printed, is left up to the user. If a font is chosen which does not contain a glyph for a codepoint used i...
