Archive for March, 2008

Free Chinese Fonts for Win9x/NT/2000/XP

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Univercity of Heidelberg (Institute of Chinese Study) present the complete Chinese Font style.

Download the fonts and see the instructions

Visit URL : ChineseFonts

Asian Fonts

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

The Balinese, Javanese, Cham, and Lepcha fonts come with their own Keyman Keyboards. To use these keyboards, you will have to download the Keyman program from www.tavultesoft.com. The Jurchen font is highly time-intensive, so making a keyboard for it is not possible at the moment. If anyone wishes to tackle the project, however, I would be willing to assist.

Visit URL : Asian Fonts

Yamada Languange Center

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Yamada Languange Center (YLC) for Japanese Fonts Gallery for Macintosh

Visit URL : YLC

WAZU JAPAN’s Gallery of Unicode Fonts

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Japanese is written using a mixture of three scripts:

  1. Hiragana,
  2. Katakana, and
  3. Kanji.

Latin letters (Romaji) and symbols/dingbats (Kigo) are also mixed into modern written Japanese. Hiragana & Katakana are syllabaries. The Unicode Standard refers to Kanji characters as “Han Ideographs”. Some Kanji are visually different in Japan than they are in other countries but they share the same codepoints in Unicode.

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