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Padauk is a fully capable Unicode 6 font supporting all the Myanmar characters in the standard. Thus it provides support for minority languages as well, in both local and Burmese rendering style.
Scheherazade, named after the heroine of the classic Arabian Nights tale, was designed by SIL International for modern Unicode-based systems using OpenType for complex-script rendering.
ScriptSource is a dynamic, collaborative reference to the writing systems of the world, with detailed information on scripts, characters, languages - and the remaining needs for supporting them in the computing realm.
Sophia Nubian is a sans serif, Unicode-compliant font. Its primary purpose is to provide adequate representation for Nubian languages which use the Coptic Unicode character set. Since Nubian languages do not use casing, uppercase characters are not included in this font.
The Tai Heritage Pro font is a Unicode-encoded font designed to reflect the traditional hand-written style of the Tai Viet script, which is used by the Tai Dam, Tai Daeng and Tai Don people who live in northwestern Vietnam and surrounding areas.
Ukelele is a Unicode Keyboard Layout Editor for Mac OS X versions 10.2 and later.
Intended for debugging, this font contains a glyph for every character in the Basic Multilingual plane (including Private Use Area) of Unicode 6.1, each glyph consisting of a box enclosing the four hex digits identifying the Unicode scalar value.
XLingPaper helps authors overcome typical obstacles faced when authoring linguistic papers or books by providing:
