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I'm not sure that the examples given in the "Bugs" section have been typed in correctly. I was under the impression that the double-character diacritics are supposed to appear after both characters, rather than between them. For example:
"Latin Small Letter K" + "Latin Small Letter P" + "Combining Double Inverted Breve" = kp͡
The above works fine for me on WinXP SP1, in Firefox 1.0.6, with Arial Unicode MS 1.00 (according to Windows Font Viewer).
The examples under "Bugs" are all of the form letter, mark, letter. If my understanding is correct, the font engine is doing exactly what it's supposed to -- render the diacritic over the preceding letter, and the space before that letter.
Signed,
R. M. Harman
Linguist and Software Engineer
iTAP Product Team, Motorola
(apologies for being a newbie at using discussion pages; I probably am not formatting things all that well)
RM Harman here again. I actually apparently got here at the same time as you, and was going to edit in that I agree with your position on this. I guess I had just been misled by years of doing things the way MS has been doing it. How would you feel about adding in a remark explaining that there's a way to achieve the desired effect -- it's just not standard-compliant? (MS, break standards? Never!)
Does anyone know why the glyphs that are in both Arial and Arial Unicode MS are different? Offhand I'd say the Arial Unicode MS glyphs look more Helvetica-like, which makes me wonder if Arial at one time looked much the same, but was made more distinct later. Any info appreciated.— mjb 00:32, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
The font doesn't appear to be available on the Wayback Machine any longer [1].
I was able to download it at the link provided by the Gentoo wiki, which alludes to the fact that the executable moves around a lot, presumably due to cease and desist letters. John Vandenberg 00:38, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
This article states several times that Arial Unicode is licensed by Microsoft exclusively to Ascender. I do not believe this is the case now, though it may have been previously. On October 16, 2007, Apple announced on their website that the next version of their flagship operating system, Mac OS X v10.5 ("Leopard"), would be bundled with Arial Unicode. Interestingly, Leopard is also slated to ship with several other previously Microsoft-only fonts, including Microsoft Sans Serif, Tahoma, and Wingdings. Norville 20:15, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Does Arial Unicode support Indian Languages? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mangalkumar ( talk • contribs) 05:47, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
The original font has primary symbols in the Macintosh Roman block: ∂ ∆ ∏ ∑ √ ∞ ∫ ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥ and other symbols which are in the Windows Glyph List, but sorted to Macintosh such as ≡ ⌂ ⌐ ⌠ ⌡
Compare this font:
∂ ∆ ∏ ∑ √ ∞ ∫ ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥
Your font which was default into the font in Win XP:
∂ ∆ ∏ ∑ √ ∞ ∫ ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥
222.233.99.69 ( talk) 14:49, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
There are no italics, bold and bold italics variants of this font, in contrast to Arial. Why? 85.3.12.222 ( talk) 18:20, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
Umh, I just checked on my Windows 8.1 machine, and Arial Unicode MS has plain, bold, italic, and bold italic. Only up to 24pt though. James Galloway ( talk) 18:24, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
For the last half decade at least I've been using this as a webfont, since it seems to be on every Windows based machine I've ever setup that I can remember and is the only decent huge Unicode fontset on Windows. Is this a bad assumption? I noticed it was not on the "XP Mode" Virtual PC you can download for Windows Vista/7 today when I upgraded to IE9 but still needed to be able to test sites under IE8. I assumed it came installed with IE or something. I assumed modern browsers need to be able to support Unicode out of the box.
EDITED: It seems like possibly it's just part of the MS Office sampler that comes pre-installed with Windows. But on all platforms? -- 67.54.192.53 ( talk) 13:35, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
What is the form for Ľľ, Şş and Ţţ? 121.164.146.86 ( talk) 15:37, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
The letters Ľ and ľ displays as an letter L with caron, the letters Ş and ş displays as Ș and ș (s with comma) and the letters Ţ and ţ displays as Ț and ț (T with comma). In your Ubuntu virtual machine, all characters will display correctly using the Windows Vista versions of all of the MS Core Fonts. 121.164.146.236 ( talk) 05:59, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
You are showing extended glyph spacing in Word 2000 under Windows 2000 Professional virtual machine. 121.164.146.236 ( talk) 09:09, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
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What does this mean: "there is no oblique (italic) version"? As a layperson, I understand this to mean that I can't write in italics with Arial Unicode (unless I do some sort of weird trick maybe). But this is not the case. I just typed a word in a new MSW document with Arial Unicode. I then marked the word and hit Ctrl i. Wolia, the word went cursive. 211.225.33.104 ( talk) 02:10, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
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I'm not sure that the examples given in the "Bugs" section have been typed in correctly. I was under the impression that the double-character diacritics are supposed to appear after both characters, rather than between them. For example:
"Latin Small Letter K" + "Latin Small Letter P" + "Combining Double Inverted Breve" = kp͡
The above works fine for me on WinXP SP1, in Firefox 1.0.6, with Arial Unicode MS 1.00 (according to Windows Font Viewer).
The examples under "Bugs" are all of the form letter, mark, letter. If my understanding is correct, the font engine is doing exactly what it's supposed to -- render the diacritic over the preceding letter, and the space before that letter.
Signed,
R. M. Harman
Linguist and Software Engineer
iTAP Product Team, Motorola
(apologies for being a newbie at using discussion pages; I probably am not formatting things all that well)
RM Harman here again. I actually apparently got here at the same time as you, and was going to edit in that I agree with your position on this. I guess I had just been misled by years of doing things the way MS has been doing it. How would you feel about adding in a remark explaining that there's a way to achieve the desired effect -- it's just not standard-compliant? (MS, break standards? Never!)
Does anyone know why the glyphs that are in both Arial and Arial Unicode MS are different? Offhand I'd say the Arial Unicode MS glyphs look more Helvetica-like, which makes me wonder if Arial at one time looked much the same, but was made more distinct later. Any info appreciated.— mjb 00:32, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
The font doesn't appear to be available on the Wayback Machine any longer [1].
I was able to download it at the link provided by the Gentoo wiki, which alludes to the fact that the executable moves around a lot, presumably due to cease and desist letters. John Vandenberg 00:38, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
This article states several times that Arial Unicode is licensed by Microsoft exclusively to Ascender. I do not believe this is the case now, though it may have been previously. On October 16, 2007, Apple announced on their website that the next version of their flagship operating system, Mac OS X v10.5 ("Leopard"), would be bundled with Arial Unicode. Interestingly, Leopard is also slated to ship with several other previously Microsoft-only fonts, including Microsoft Sans Serif, Tahoma, and Wingdings. Norville 20:15, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Does Arial Unicode support Indian Languages? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mangalkumar ( talk • contribs) 05:47, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
The original font has primary symbols in the Macintosh Roman block: ∂ ∆ ∏ ∑ √ ∞ ∫ ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥ and other symbols which are in the Windows Glyph List, but sorted to Macintosh such as ≡ ⌂ ⌐ ⌠ ⌡
Compare this font:
∂ ∆ ∏ ∑ √ ∞ ∫ ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥
Your font which was default into the font in Win XP:
∂ ∆ ∏ ∑ √ ∞ ∫ ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥
222.233.99.69 ( talk) 14:49, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
There are no italics, bold and bold italics variants of this font, in contrast to Arial. Why? 85.3.12.222 ( talk) 18:20, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
Umh, I just checked on my Windows 8.1 machine, and Arial Unicode MS has plain, bold, italic, and bold italic. Only up to 24pt though. James Galloway ( talk) 18:24, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
For the last half decade at least I've been using this as a webfont, since it seems to be on every Windows based machine I've ever setup that I can remember and is the only decent huge Unicode fontset on Windows. Is this a bad assumption? I noticed it was not on the "XP Mode" Virtual PC you can download for Windows Vista/7 today when I upgraded to IE9 but still needed to be able to test sites under IE8. I assumed it came installed with IE or something. I assumed modern browsers need to be able to support Unicode out of the box.
EDITED: It seems like possibly it's just part of the MS Office sampler that comes pre-installed with Windows. But on all platforms? -- 67.54.192.53 ( talk) 13:35, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
What is the form for Ľľ, Şş and Ţţ? 121.164.146.86 ( talk) 15:37, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
The letters Ľ and ľ displays as an letter L with caron, the letters Ş and ş displays as Ș and ș (s with comma) and the letters Ţ and ţ displays as Ț and ț (T with comma). In your Ubuntu virtual machine, all characters will display correctly using the Windows Vista versions of all of the MS Core Fonts. 121.164.146.236 ( talk) 05:59, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
You are showing extended glyph spacing in Word 2000 under Windows 2000 Professional virtual machine. 121.164.146.236 ( talk) 09:09, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
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What does this mean: "there is no oblique (italic) version"? As a layperson, I understand this to mean that I can't write in italics with Arial Unicode (unless I do some sort of weird trick maybe). But this is not the case. I just typed a word in a new MSW document with Arial Unicode. I then marked the word and hit Ctrl i. Wolia, the word went cursive. 211.225.33.104 ( talk) 02:10, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
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13:32, 25 October 2014 (UTC)I am not sure why nobody reports the other bugs with this font:
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