[WEB4LIB] Re: Arial MS Unicode Font

[Chris Gray]

You might also want to look at the listing of unicode fonts for Windows
maintained by Alan Wood
<http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/fonts.html>.

Chris Gray
University of Waterloo Library

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Andrew Cunningham wrote:

> Hi Howard,
> 
> MS also removed their core web fonts from their web site. I suspect for 
> extactly teh same reason: licensing violations.
> 
> Howard Pasternack wrote:
> > I have just learned to my great dismay that Microsoft has removed the 
> > download for the Arial MS Unicode font from its web site.  This font is 
> > needed for Windows 98 and NT machines to display opac CJK output.  Does 
> > anyone know of any decent alternatives.  -- Howard
> 
> I assume from your comment that you do not have Office 2000/XP installed 
> on these workstations and that you are using netscape as your woksattion 
> browser? If so, then Arial Unicode MS shouldn't have been on those 
> computers in the first place.
> 
> Depends on what you define as a decent font. Possibilities:
> 
> 1) If you're using IE 5/5.5/6 just download the CJK language packs. That 
> will give you the base fonts for CJK.
> 
> 2) If you are using netscape and still have IE3/4 installed just load 
> the IE3 or IE4 language packs. They can ocassionally be located.
> 
> 3) There are quite a few vendors who sell CJK unicode fonts. A couple of 
> the Asian font vendors and software developers have some fonts that can 
> be downloaded from their websites.
> 
> 4) From memory, NT4 comes with language files (including fonts) for 
> Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean. But not simplified (from memory).
> 
> 5) If you're using netscape, try installing Bitstream CyberCJK from 
> Netscape's ftp site.
> 
> There are other alternatives.
> 
> Although when loading fonts for languages other than English on to 
> worksations in our libraries, I tend to try to comply with the licensing 
> restrictions of the fonts in question.
> 
> 
> Andrew
> 
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