http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/cjk-unified-ideographs-extension-d.html A new Unicode range in the SIP (Supplementary Ideographic Plane) for some urgently-needed ideographs. There are 222 of these new characters in version 6.0.0 of the Unicode Standard. The BabelStone Han and HanaMin Regular fonts include these new characters. Unicode range Sun, 12 Dec 2010 15:15:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#121201 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts-middle-eastern.html#zhmono Version 2.2 of this medium, OpenType font adds support for the Inscriptional Parthian range (introduced in Unicode version 5.2.0). It contains 62 characters (63 glyphs), and does not include Latin characters. Produced by Zach Harrison. font/Windows Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:45:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#120201 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts_windows.html#symbola Version 6.01 of this regular OpenType, font adds characters from the new Unicode 6.0.0 Playing Cards, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, Emoticons, Transport and Map Symbols, and Alchemical Symbols ranges. It contains 6,848 characters (6,851 glyphs), and is produced by George Douros. font/Windows Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:45:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#111201 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/alchemical-symbols.html A new Unicode range in the SMP for the alchemical symbols that have been used by alchemists, natural philosophers, chemists and apothecaries since the 5th century C.E. There are 116 of these new characters in version 6.0.0 of the Unicode Standard. The Symbola font includes these new characters. Unicode range Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:45:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#111202 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/emoticons.html One of the new Unicode ranges in the SMP for emoji, symbols used in Japanese mobile telephones and web pages. There are 63 of these new characters in version 6.0.0 of the Unicode Standard. The Symbola font includes these new characters. Unicode range Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:45:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#111203 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/miscellaneous-symbols-and-pictographs.html One of the new Unicode ranges in the SMP for emoji, symbols used in Japanese mobile telephones and web pages. There are 529 of these new characters in version 6.0.0 of the Unicode Standard. The Symbola font includes these new characters. Unicode range Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:45:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#111204 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/playing-cards.html A new Unicode range in the SMP for the symbols used on standard playing cards. There are 59 of these new characters in version 6.0.0 of the Unicode Standard. The Symbola font includes these new characters. Unicode range Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:45:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#111205 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/emoticons.html One of the new Unicode ranges in the SMP for emoji, symbols used in Japanese mobile telephones and web pages. There are 70 of these new characters in version 6.0.0 of the Unicode Standard. The Symbola font includes these new characters. Unicode range Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:45:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#111206 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts-east-asian.html#babelstonehan This general-purpose, OpenType, Han font contains 24,455 characters (24,470 glyphs), and includes all of the characters from the new Unicode 6.0.0 CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D and Kana Supplement ranges. Produced by Andrew West. font/Windows Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:45:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#110701 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts-east-asian.html#hanaminregular Version 2010-10-13 of this OpenType, Japanese font contains 58,343 characters (60,005 glyphs), and includes all of the characters from the new Unicode 6.0.0 CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D and Kana Supplement ranges. font/Windows Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:45:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#110702 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/bamum-supplement.html A new Unicode range in the SMP for historical characters from the Bamum script. There are 569 of these new characters in version 6.0.0 of the Unicode Standard. Unicode range Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:45:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#110703 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/brahmi.html A new Unicode range in the SMP for the Brahmi script, from which all of the modern Indian scripts are derived. There are 108 of these new characters in version 6.0.0 of the Unicode Standard. Unicode range Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:45:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#110704 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/ethiopic-extended-a.html A new Unicode range in the BMP for Ethiopic syllables that are used in Basketo, Gamo-Gofa-Dawro and Gumuz. There are 32 of these new characters in version 6.0.0 of the Unicode Standard. Unicode range Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:45:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#110705 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/kana-supplement.html A new Unicode range in the SMP for historical Hiragana and Katakana characters. There are 2 of these new characters in version 6.0.0 of the Unicode Standard. The BabelStone Han and HanaMin Regular fonts include these new characters. Unicode range Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:45:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#110706 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/mandaic.html A new Unicode range in the BMP for the Mandaic script that is used for religious documents of the Mandaean Christian sect. There are 29 of these new characters in version 6.0.0 of the Unicode Standard. Unicode range Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:30:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#101201 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/batak.html A new Unicode range in the BMP for the Batak script that is used for the Batak language on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. There are 56 of these new characters in version 6.0.0 of the Unicode Standard. Unicode range Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:25:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#101202 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts-east-asian.html#wenquanyizenhei This medium, sans-serif, OpenType font for Simplified Chinese also includes Japanese, Korean, Cyrillic, Greek and Latin characters, and contains 35,597 glyphs. It also contains characters from the Bopomofo, Counting Rod Numerals, Tai Xuan Jing Symbols and Yijing Hexagram Symbols ranges. Produced by Qianqian Fang. font/Windows Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:50:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#090101 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts-south-asian.html#akhilhe This regular, OpenType font is intended for the Devanagari range (languages including Hindi, Marathi, Nepali and Sanskrit), and also includes Basic Latin characters. It is professionally hinted and contains 236 characters and 397 glyphs. Produced by Akhilesh Gupta. font/Windows Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:20:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#081701 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts-southeast-asian.html#chiangsaenalif This regular, OpenType font is intended for the Tai Tham range (introduced in Unicode version 5.2.0). It contains 318 characters and 323 glyphs, and includes Basic Latin characters. Produced by Alif Silpachai. font/Windows Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:20:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#081702 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html#rupakara This OpenType font supports all of the Latin letters that are commonly used to transliterate Indian languages, and also includes the new Indian Rupee Sign. It contains 393 characters and 394 glyphs, and there are Oblique, Bold and Bold Oblique variants. Produced by Michael Everson. font/Windows Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:20:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#081703 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts-southeast-asian.html#adjisaka This regular, TrueType font is intended for the Javanese range (introduced in Unicode version 5.2.0), and also includes Latin characters. Produced by Ki Demang Sokowaten. Note that there are also Javanese characters at code points in the Balinese, Khmer Symbols, New Tai Lue, Sundanese and Tai Tham ranges. font/Windows Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:15:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#072501 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts-southeast-asian.html#lannaunicodeui This regular, OpenType font is intended for the Tai Tham range (introduced in Unicode version 5.2.0). It contains 374 characters and 486 glyphs, and does not include Latin alphanumeric characters. Produced by Banphot Nuchleang. font/Windows Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:20:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#071001 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts-middle-eastern.html#qataban This regular, OpenType font is intended for the Old South Arabian range (introduced in Unicode version 5.2.0). It contains 35 glyphs, and does not include Latin characters. Produced by Bronson Brown-deVost. font/Windows Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:35:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#070901 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts-middle-eastern.html#ahuramazda This regular, OpenType font is intended for the Avestan range (introduced in Unicode version 5.2.0). It contains 81 glyphs, and does not include Latin alphabetic characters. Produced by Ernst Tremel. font/Windows Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:00:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#070801 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts-middle-eastern.html#zhmono This medium, OpenType font is intended for the Inscriptional Pahlavi range (introduced in Unicode version 5.2.0). It contains 32 glyphs, and does not include Latin characters. Produced by Zach Harrison. font/Windows Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:45:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#060301 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts_windows.html#stixgeneral This OpenType font has been produced by a consortium of publishers of mathematical, scientific, and technical books and journals, for use in electronic and print formats. It contains 3290 glyphs, and includes regular, italic, bold and bold italic versions, and Cyrillic, Greek and Latin characters as well as mathematical, scientific and technical characters. font/Windows Mon, 31 May 2010 11:15:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#053101 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts-middle-eastern.html#zavesta This regular, TrueType font is intended for the Avestan range (introduced in Unicode version 5.2.0). It contains 96 glyphs, and does not include Latin alphabetic characters. Produced by William W. Malandra and Emily B. West. font/Windows Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:40:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#041101 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts-south-asian.html#eodissaboxuni This regular, sans-serif, OpenType font is intended for the Oriya range and contains 196 characters and 411 glyphs. It include Basic Latin characters, and is described as a designer font. Produced by Subhashish Panigrahi. font/Windows Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:05:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#032701 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts-middle-eastern.html#aramaicearlybrrkb These 7 regular, TrueType fonts are intended for the Phoenician range and contain 94–103 glyphs. They do not include Latin alphabetic characters. Produced by Yoram Gnat (יורם גנת). font/Windows Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:25:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#032401 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts-middle-eastern.html#aramaicimperialyeb This regular, OpenType font is intended for the Imperial Aramaic range and contains 116 glyphs. It does not include Latin alphabetic characters. Produced by Yoram Gnat (יורם גנת). font/Windows Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:25:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#032402 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts-middle-eastern.html#aramaicviibce This regular, TrueType font is intended for the Imperial Aramaic range and contains 96 glyphs. It does not include Latin alphabetic characters. Produced by Yoram Gnat (יורם גנת). font/Windows Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:25:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#032403 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts-middle-eastern.html#hebrewsamaritan This regular, TrueType font is intended for the Samaritan range and contains 118 characters and 121 glyphs. It does not implement the Samaritan vowel, punctuation and accent marks, and it does not include Latin alphabetic characters. Produced by Yoram Gnat (יורם גנת). font/Windows Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:25:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#032404 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts-central-asian.html#oldturkic This regular, TrueType font is intended for the Old Turkic range. It contains 113 glyphs, and does not include Latin alphabetic characters. Produced by Emir Yasin Sari and Erk Yurtsever. font/Windows Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:25:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#032201 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts-middle-eastern.html#avestan This regular, TrueType font is intended for the Avestan range. It contains 68 glyphs, and does not include Latin alphanumeric characters. Produced by Ivan Štambuk. font/Windows Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:05:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#031001 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts-southeast-asian.html#lannaalif This regular, OpenType font is intended for the Tai Tham range. It contains 318 characters and 323 glyphs, and includes Latin alphanumeric characters. Produced by Alif Silpachai. font/Windows Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:20:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#022801 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts-south-asian.html#eeyekunicode This regular, TrueType font is intended for the Meetei Mayek range. It claims to contain 253 characters and 247 glyphs, and does not include Latin alphanumeric characters. Produced by Pravabati Chingangbam and Tabish. font/Windows Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:15:00 GMT http://www.alanwood.net/news/unicode-2010.xml#022301 Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources