We are evaluating other possibilities for making this font available, but
can not make any specific commitment at this time.
Lori Brownell
Group Program Manager
Windows OS Division/Typography
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stephen_holmes@lionbridge.com [SMTP:stephen_holmes@lionbridge.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 20, 1998 4:52 AM
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: RE: converters
>
>
> Naturally, these big fonts are extremely useful (Cyberbit etc). Is there
> any
> way we can get them outside of the O2K beta programme?
>
> Steve.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <unicode@unicode.org >
> Sent: 20 November 1998 03:53
> To: Unicode List <unicode@unicode.org>
> Subject: RE: converters
>
>
> Hello Michael. If you attended the Unicode conference, perhaps you saw my
> talk on Office2000? I covered some of these issues.
>
> Word2000 (now in Beta2) will import your plain iso-8859-6 text and also
> supports output of UTF-8 plain text, if that is what you need.
>
> In between, you can edit Arabic text properly (no special Arabic version
> required), as well as about 100 other languages, and you can display these
> all at the same time. Office2000 also includes a full Unicode 2.1 font
> called "Arial Unicode MS". This is a complete font covering all of Unicode
> 2.1. Cyberbit has fairly good coverage, but several ranges are missing so
> you may want a backup. Typically we don't recommend such full Unicode
> fonts
> however - better results are obtained with fonts designed for the
> particular
> language you are looking for.
>
> You can contact me directly for details.
>
> Chris Pratley
> Lead International Program Manager
> Microsoft Office
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Flowers [mailto:Michael.Flowers@digital.com]
> Sent: November 18, 1998 5:53 AM
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: converters
>
>
> My name is Michael Flowers, and I work for DIGITAL Equipment, a
> subsidiary of Compaq Computer Corporation. I attended the Unicode
> conference in San Jose, CA this past September, and I was wondering if I
> could find out some information.
>
> A project that I am working on with the US Department of Defense,
> is
> a dictionary lookup tool in foreign languages. The language they have
> requested first is Arabic. I was wondering if you had any information on
> converters of ISO-8859-6 Arabic text over to UTF-8 encoding? We are using
> the CYBERBIT font from Bitstream, Inc. on our NT machine.
>
> In the future, we would like to convert other dictionaries in
> other
> languages over to store in our database/lookup tool, hence the need for
> the
> CYBERBIT font. We would like to be able to display the text from multiple
> languages on one page. Thanks in advance for any information you can
> provide.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Michael Flowers
> Technology Consultant
> DIGITAL, a wholly owned subsidiary of Compaq Computer Corporation
>
>
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