It depends on your platform. Windows users can get free fonts from Microsoft's
website. Follow the links to Internet Explorer, and look for "Far East Language
Packs." Mac users can buy "language kits" from Apple (see their website). Unix users
can download free fonts from various places. Look at www.unicode.org for pointers
(and that applies to PC and Mac users as well.)
__Glen Perkins__
Javed Sikander wrote:
> Could someone point me to a place where I can download (buy ??) Unicode fonts,
> which I can use to display say, far-eastern and middle-eastern languages ???
>
> Thanks
> Javed
>
> Mark Davis wrote:
>
> > > From:
> > > goatholl@sonic.net
> > > When I tried to use unicode in a java program, I don't get a character,
> > > just a blank space, or an underline rather than a Hebrew character. why? Is
> > > there a unicode font that you have to download before you can use it or????
> > > new to unicode land, -Karen
> >
> > First, if you want to display a given Unicode character, then you have to make
> > sure that you have a font containing that character on your system.
> >
> > Second, you have to let Java know about that font. (You can't do this in Java
> > 1.0, only in 1.1 or later.) The way you do that is to edit the font.properties
> > file in your Java directory. Sun has a web page talking about this, at
> > http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/docs/guide/intl/fontprop.html. (You can
> > also do a search for "font.properties" on http://java.sun.com.)
> >
> > > Jonathan Rosenne <rosenne@netvision.net.il>
> > > The Java specification does not include proper suopport for bidi, thus it
> > > cannot claim to support Unicode.
> >
> > This statement is not quite accurate. To support Unicode, an implementation
> > does not have to support every Unicode character--Java currently does not
> > support Arabic or Hebrew. However, work is underway to support both of them in
> > Java 1.2.
> >
> > --
> > Mark Davis
> > personal: mailto:mark@macchiato.com
> > business: mailto:medavis2@us.ibm.com, mailto:mark@unicode.org
> > --
>
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