[WEB4LIB] Arial MS Unicode Font

[Andrew Cunningham]

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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Andrew Cunningham
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