On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 00:06:28 -0700, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com gave utterance to the following:
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 20:22, David Friedland wrote:
I've done some testing now at home on my Mac, and neither Mac Phoenix nor Mac Internet Explorer correctly display the Unicode IPA extensions. Safari displays most of them, but is missing some critical symbols, like the 'er' sound in 'her'.
Is there a problem with rendering those characters, or is it just that standard system fonts don't include them? If the latter, are there free fonts we could recommend to people?
The following information comes from Alan Wood's extensive unicode information site: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts_windows.html#ipa
IPA Fonts --------- SILDoulosUnicodeIPA – 532 glyphs in version 4.0a4 Ranges: Basic Latin; Latin-1 Supplement; Latin Extended-A (few); IPA Extensions; Spacing Modifier Letters; Combining Diacritical Marks; General Punctuartion; Mathematical Operators OpenType layout tables: Latin Family: Serif Styles: Regular Availability: Free download from SIL Unicode IPA Font beta. Includes a keyboard layout produced with Keyman.
ALPHABETUM Unicode, Arial Unicode MS, Bitstream CyberBit, Bitstream CyberCJK, Cardo, Caslon, Code2000, Free Monospaced, Gentium, GentiumAlt, Junicode, Lucida Sans, Lucida Sans Unicode, Monospace, MS Mincho, Naqsh, SImPL, Thryomanes and TITUS Cyberbit Basic can also display IPA Extensions ---------- (Back to my comments) Of the above, several are proprietary (cost unknown). MS Arial Unicode is 23MB and requires a MS Office or Publisher license - Microsoft removed the free download page last year. Code2000 is shareware, and about 2MB. Unlike regular users, I have a wide range of unicode fonts for use in testing browsers. In Opera I can see all but the last two characters from Alan's test page http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/ipa_extensions.html