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Elenor Backus
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With this Unicode keyboard driver software and OpenType Unicode fonts you can input Unicode standard Malayalam text in any Unicode compatible software like MS Word-XP, Access-XP, Excel-XP, Outlook etc. ThoolikaUnicode have both Reformed Malayalam and Traditional Malayalam Open Type Unicode fonts and alphabetical sorting of Malayalam is 99% accurate in Unicode text.
Malayalam is becoming increasingly popular as an online medium of communication among Malayalees, especially with more and more malayalees turning to social networking and blogging. Therefore, Malayalam fonts are becoming a necessity in order to read and write or type articles, e-mails etc... Several Free Malayalam Unicode fonts are available for free download. Most online newspaper websites have their own fonts to read Malayalam text.
Thoolika Font For Mac
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Given below is a list of Malayalam Fonts including Malayalam Unicode fonts which are available for free download. For you convenience, the preview of each of these fonts are given here with a paragraph of text.
When you open pages with Malayalam text and find boxes instead of Malayalam text on malayalam alphabets, its because there is no Malayalam font installed on your system. Download Malayalam fonts and install them on to your system.
How to Install Malayalam Fonts - To install fonts, copy and paste .ttf file to your computers C:\Windows\Fonts folder. In case of .zip files, unzip the files and copy the .ttf files to the fonts folder.
The split rendering of Koottaksharam and Chillu in Malayalam is not the real issue. The real issue is - only a few manufacturers support Malayalam Unicode fonts, and little of them renders Malayalam correctly.
The only workaround is - convert the Unicode text into ASCII codes, use that ASCII text in components, and load the font dynamically. You can see that at Manoramaonline.com - see the HTML source - they are not using Unicode, instead they are using some symbols, and displays those symbols using their own font, which eventually looks like Malayalam text.
To give you an actualcomparison of glyphs available, I viewed the Cardo font, a Unicodefont, with a program that displays a glyph pallette showing all theglyphs in that font. It says the Cardo font has 2,881 glyphs. Comparethat to Times New Roman and Arial, which both have 239glyphs. THAT is the most important difference between legacy7-bit fonts and 16-bit Unicode fonts- their ability to handle alanguage like Chinese that has many glyphs, or handle many languageswith one font. Here is the official page of Unicode 4.0 thatlists all theglyphs possible.The purpose of thechange is so that there can be one code agreed upon by all softwaremakers and web page writers as to the code for any character in anymajor language or commercially important language in the world. TheUnicode standard for fonts is developed in close parallel with HTML anda new universal character set for HTML pages, ISO-10646.
So now because ofUnicode fonts, on my Windows XP computer, I can have the name of a filein Greek characters, with full diacritics, because of the Unicodecapability of the operating system. One important reason Ilike Unicode for Greek is that in Word, you can paste a fully accentedGreek word into Word's "find" window, and Word can with Unicode, findany other instances of that exact inflection of that word, elsewhere inthe document, even in the whole Septuagint or Greek NewTestament. This is a huge advantage over old legacyfonts. In addition, now a URL can now have complex accentedlanguages in the address. (However, since not all computerscan see every Unicode character, this can be used by site-spoofers, whohave already figured out a way to add a Unicode character that won't beseen in their domain name, and that domain name is only one characteroff from say Paypal.com. So those whose computers can't seethe extra Unicode character on the domain name, go to that spoofer'sdomain and think they are actually on Paypal's site.)
Both the Greek and theEnglish text in the previous line are in Palatino Linotypefont. Palatino Linotype is an excellent Unicode font designedin the 1950s by Hermann Zapf, which comes included with the followingMicrosoft products: Office Professional Edition 2003, Windows 2000,Windows XP, Windows XP Service Pack 2. If you have any of theabove, which I think at least half of computer users do, you should beable to see the accented Greek with the iota subscripts under the wordsas well. If you can see the Greek correctly, you can checkout my BibleVersions Comparisons page that utilizes Unicode for fullypolytonic Greek text.
What if you don't seeit right? Like, do you see some empty boxes where a charactershould be, or gibberish, or a question mark? You may have aUnicode-capable operating system, but not have that font. Like a Windows NT workstation, or Windows 98. Those operatingsystems do include a Unicode font called LucidaSans Unicode. See if you can read the followingcharacters. The first one is the Hebrew letter aleph:
These are glyphs youmight need for Greek New Testament apparatus, or the InternationalPhonetic Alphabet. These are all in Lucida Sans Unicodefont. If you can see all of them correctly, your operatingsystem and browser do support Unicode.
1. Set yourdefault browser font to a fully Unicode font. If you have anyof the following three, Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Office 2003, youdo have the Unicode font I used for the Greek text above, PalatinoLinotype. Click the "start" button on the lower left of yourscreen, then put your mouse pointer over "Settings," and then over"Control Panel," then choose the one called "InternetOptions." Once you are in the Internet Options control panel,first click the "accessibility" button. Then in that dialogbox, make sure all the options are NOT checked. Close that,and then in the same Internet Options panel, click the "fonts"button. For the language script: "Latin based" choose thefont named "Palatino Linotype" in the scroll box of fonts. Ifyou do not have that font, choose another font that isUnicode. Click OK to close the window.
7. Use MozillaFirefox as your browser, the best browser forWindows. (The Safari browser on Macintosh is goodtoo.) Firefox is faster, and supports Unicode, and has bettersecurity. In the options menu in firefox, you can choose yourdefault character preference, by bringing down the "tools" menu, andchoosing "options." Then, in the "content" tab, and then downbelow where it says, "fonts and colors," clicked the "advanced"button. Then choose your option. There are severalUnicode options, and many language options.
Windows 95,Windows 98 and Windows Me do not fullysupport Unicode 3.0. The following language (and possibly others) arenot supported on these platforms: Devanagari, Bengali,Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhala,Thai and Lao. NOTE installing a font forone of these languages on Win9x may result in Windows no longer beingable to use any font reliably. Note also that although Persian scriptsare supported on these platforms (e.g. Pashto, Sindhi, Sorani, Urdu,etc), you may need to update certain system components. See thefollowing Microsoft knowledgebase article for further details. Here is a pageabout how to get Windows98 to display languages of India. I also have linksfarther down this page to keyboard utilities and fonts for Indianlanguages. Here is another page with instructions on using Unicode with Windows 95.
Macintosh OSX 10.2 onsupports Unicode. The browser Safari should be able todisplay the above Unicode glyphs. Here is the newest browserfor Macintosh, OSX 10.3 or later, Camino.Camino 1.5 is a universal binary and runs natively on both PowerPC- andIntel-based Macs. Macintosh OS 8.5 through 9 theoretically supportUnicode, but you have to install a few pieces of software from theinstall CDs, like Language Kits and Unicode script. The onlyweb browser for classic Mac operating systems that handles Unicodefonts is Opera. The text editor, WorldText or WorldWrite?,that comes with OS 9, can handle Unicode fonts. However, Ihave not found OS 9 to be of any use for typing polytonic Greek inunicode, because when you can finally manage to get it to acceptUnicode, you have to type one character at a time, see theseinstructions. You can, however, manage to get OS 9to let you type Chinese or Arabic for example, since language kits aresupplied for those and other languages. But not polytonicGreek. I am mainly discussing on this page the Unicode fontsand software that support Biblical language scholarship, such aspolytonic Greek, fully cantillated Hebrew, and special symbols used inthe footnote apparatus of the current Greek New Testamenteditions. Therefore I declare that, even though I love Mac OS9 and earlier, it is time to move on, to OSX, or MicrosoftWindows. I am pleased to say, however, that my AppleLaserwriter Select 360 printer that I bought in 1991 still works well,and even prints all the Unicode fonts from my Windows XPmachine. It hesitates a little, probably needing more printerRAM, since I only have 1 MB in the printer. But it works.
I am listing thesefonts not in alphabetical order, but generally in order of mypreference for them. I first list the ones for extended Greekand textual criticism apparatus. Cardo and Code 2000 havesupplementary glyphs for the latter.
Cardo98
Free download. Available for Windows, Mac OSX, andLinux. Serif, upright. Medium spread-outtext. The only font with all the glyphs in mydocuments. 2,881 glyphs. A very nice looking Greekfont when printed out. The English and Latin appearance isgreat too. It also has all the Hebrew glyphs includingcantillation and diacritics, and all the IPA glyphs.
In my opinon,the only Hebrew fonts worth having are Cardo98, Code2000, TitusCyberbit Basic, and Ezra SIL/SR. They are the only ones thatdo all the extras. If you just need to do the main Hebrewconsonants and vowels, the following fonts that come with the Windows2000 and XP operating systems will work: Times New Roman and CourierNew. I show the above text in many other fonts on my fonts page.
Mechon-Mamrediscussion of Hebrew unicode
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Malayalam is becoming increasingly popular as an online medium of communication among Malayalees, especially with more and more malayalees turning to social networking and blogging. Therefore, Malayalam fonts are becoming a necessity in order to read and write or type articles, e-mails etc... Several Free Malayalam Unicode fonts are available for free download. Most online newspaper websites have their own fonts to read Malayalam text.
Thoolika Font For Mac
Download https://t.co/49t9EdWhoO
Given below is a list of Malayalam Fonts including Malayalam Unicode fonts which are available for free download. For you convenience, the preview of each of these fonts are given here with a paragraph of text.
When you open pages with Malayalam text and find boxes instead of Malayalam text on malayalam alphabets, its because there is no Malayalam font installed on your system. Download Malayalam fonts and install them on to your system.
How to Install Malayalam Fonts - To install fonts, copy and paste .ttf file to your computers C:\Windows\Fonts folder. In case of .zip files, unzip the files and copy the .ttf files to the fonts folder.
The split rendering of Koottaksharam and Chillu in Malayalam is not the real issue. The real issue is - only a few manufacturers support Malayalam Unicode fonts, and little of them renders Malayalam correctly.
The only workaround is - convert the Unicode text into ASCII codes, use that ASCII text in components, and load the font dynamically. You can see that at Manoramaonline.com - see the HTML source - they are not using Unicode, instead they are using some symbols, and displays those symbols using their own font, which eventually looks like Malayalam text.
To give you an actualcomparison of glyphs available, I viewed the Cardo font, a Unicodefont, with a program that displays a glyph pallette showing all theglyphs in that font. It says the Cardo font has 2,881 glyphs. Comparethat to Times New Roman and Arial, which both have 239glyphs. THAT is the most important difference between legacy7-bit fonts and 16-bit Unicode fonts- their ability to handle alanguage like Chinese that has many glyphs, or handle many languageswith one font. Here is the official page of Unicode 4.0 thatlists all theglyphs possible.The purpose of thechange is so that there can be one code agreed upon by all softwaremakers and web page writers as to the code for any character in anymajor language or commercially important language in the world. TheUnicode standard for fonts is developed in close parallel with HTML anda new universal character set for HTML pages, ISO-10646.
So now because ofUnicode fonts, on my Windows XP computer, I can have the name of a filein Greek characters, with full diacritics, because of the Unicodecapability of the operating system. One important reason Ilike Unicode for Greek is that in Word, you can paste a fully accentedGreek word into Word's "find" window, and Word can with Unicode, findany other instances of that exact inflection of that word, elsewhere inthe document, even in the whole Septuagint or Greek NewTestament. This is a huge advantage over old legacyfonts. In addition, now a URL can now have complex accentedlanguages in the address. (However, since not all computerscan see every Unicode character, this can be used by site-spoofers, whohave already figured out a way to add a Unicode character that won't beseen in their domain name, and that domain name is only one characteroff from say Paypal.com. So those whose computers can't seethe extra Unicode character on the domain name, go to that spoofer'sdomain and think they are actually on Paypal's site.)
Both the Greek and theEnglish text in the previous line are in Palatino Linotypefont. Palatino Linotype is an excellent Unicode font designedin the 1950s by Hermann Zapf, which comes included with the followingMicrosoft products: Office Professional Edition 2003, Windows 2000,Windows XP, Windows XP Service Pack 2. If you have any of theabove, which I think at least half of computer users do, you should beable to see the accented Greek with the iota subscripts under the wordsas well. If you can see the Greek correctly, you can checkout my BibleVersions Comparisons page that utilizes Unicode for fullypolytonic Greek text.
What if you don't seeit right? Like, do you see some empty boxes where a charactershould be, or gibberish, or a question mark? You may have aUnicode-capable operating system, but not have that font. Like a Windows NT workstation, or Windows 98. Those operatingsystems do include a Unicode font called LucidaSans Unicode. See if you can read the followingcharacters. The first one is the Hebrew letter aleph:
These are glyphs youmight need for Greek New Testament apparatus, or the InternationalPhonetic Alphabet. These are all in Lucida Sans Unicodefont. If you can see all of them correctly, your operatingsystem and browser do support Unicode.
1. Set yourdefault browser font to a fully Unicode font. If you have anyof the following three, Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Office 2003, youdo have the Unicode font I used for the Greek text above, PalatinoLinotype. Click the "start" button on the lower left of yourscreen, then put your mouse pointer over "Settings," and then over"Control Panel," then choose the one called "InternetOptions." Once you are in the Internet Options control panel,first click the "accessibility" button. Then in that dialogbox, make sure all the options are NOT checked. Close that,and then in the same Internet Options panel, click the "fonts"button. For the language script: "Latin based" choose thefont named "Palatino Linotype" in the scroll box of fonts. Ifyou do not have that font, choose another font that isUnicode. Click OK to close the window.
7. Use MozillaFirefox as your browser, the best browser forWindows. (The Safari browser on Macintosh is goodtoo.) Firefox is faster, and supports Unicode, and has bettersecurity. In the options menu in firefox, you can choose yourdefault character preference, by bringing down the "tools" menu, andchoosing "options." Then, in the "content" tab, and then downbelow where it says, "fonts and colors," clicked the "advanced"button. Then choose your option. There are severalUnicode options, and many language options.
Windows 95,Windows 98 and Windows Me do not fullysupport Unicode 3.0. The following language (and possibly others) arenot supported on these platforms: Devanagari, Bengali,Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhala,Thai and Lao. NOTE installing a font forone of these languages on Win9x may result in Windows no longer beingable to use any font reliably. Note also that although Persian scriptsare supported on these platforms (e.g. Pashto, Sindhi, Sorani, Urdu,etc), you may need to update certain system components. See thefollowing Microsoft knowledgebase article for further details. Here is a pageabout how to get Windows98 to display languages of India. I also have linksfarther down this page to keyboard utilities and fonts for Indianlanguages. Here is another page with instructions on using Unicode with Windows 95.
Macintosh OSX 10.2 onsupports Unicode. The browser Safari should be able todisplay the above Unicode glyphs. Here is the newest browserfor Macintosh, OSX 10.3 or later, Camino.Camino 1.5 is a universal binary and runs natively on both PowerPC- andIntel-based Macs. Macintosh OS 8.5 through 9 theoretically supportUnicode, but you have to install a few pieces of software from theinstall CDs, like Language Kits and Unicode script. The onlyweb browser for classic Mac operating systems that handles Unicodefonts is Opera. The text editor, WorldText or WorldWrite?,that comes with OS 9, can handle Unicode fonts. However, Ihave not found OS 9 to be of any use for typing polytonic Greek inunicode, because when you can finally manage to get it to acceptUnicode, you have to type one character at a time, see theseinstructions. You can, however, manage to get OS 9to let you type Chinese or Arabic for example, since language kits aresupplied for those and other languages. But not polytonicGreek. I am mainly discussing on this page the Unicode fontsand software that support Biblical language scholarship, such aspolytonic Greek, fully cantillated Hebrew, and special symbols used inthe footnote apparatus of the current Greek New Testamenteditions. Therefore I declare that, even though I love Mac OS9 and earlier, it is time to move on, to OSX, or MicrosoftWindows. I am pleased to say, however, that my AppleLaserwriter Select 360 printer that I bought in 1991 still works well,and even prints all the Unicode fonts from my Windows XPmachine. It hesitates a little, probably needing more printerRAM, since I only have 1 MB in the printer. But it works.
I am listing thesefonts not in alphabetical order, but generally in order of mypreference for them. I first list the ones for extended Greekand textual criticism apparatus. Cardo and Code 2000 havesupplementary glyphs for the latter.
Cardo98
Free download. Available for Windows, Mac OSX, andLinux. Serif, upright. Medium spread-outtext. The only font with all the glyphs in mydocuments. 2,881 glyphs. A very nice looking Greekfont when printed out. The English and Latin appearance isgreat too. It also has all the Hebrew glyphs includingcantillation and diacritics, and all the IPA glyphs.
In my opinon,the only Hebrew fonts worth having are Cardo98, Code2000, TitusCyberbit Basic, and Ezra SIL/SR. They are the only ones thatdo all the extras. If you just need to do the main Hebrewconsonants and vowels, the following fonts that come with the Windows2000 and XP operating systems will work: Times New Roman and CourierNew. I show the above text in many other fonts on my fonts page.
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