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Font-Problems
Introduction
Due to unicode-formatting of Ancient Greek, Japanese, Latvian, and Russian it happens
that some characters do not show up properly in these languages. This is so
because even though many fonts do support unicode characters they do not
necessarily support the entire range of letters.
When browsing a corpus for one of these languages, we have tried to give the
browser directives for using an appropriate font. The fonts we propose for each
language and operating system can be seen below. However, if your computer does
not have any of the proposed fonts installed, this does not work.
Font test
One way of testing if an appropriate font is installed, is by running the
slant-applet with a sentence looking distorted. The slant-applet automatically
checks if all characters show up properly. If they do not, it will start a test of
all fonts installed on your computer. Note; this test can take several
minutes.
If the slant-applet finds an appropriate font, which we do not list
below, we would be glad to hear from you. Please send an email to jazz@mip.sdu.dk. Otherwise you need to install
an appropriate font.
Tips/corrections
Tips and corrections to this document are always welcome. To our best knowledge
the information in this document is correct, but if you find an error,
a font you think is better than what we propose, an easier way to install fonts,
a better browser we don't list, etc; then don't hesitate to send an email to jazz@mip.sdu.dk
Operating systems
Windows
Some unicode fonts follow with the installation of certain Microsoft
products, typically Microsoft Office 2000, FrontPage 2000, Windows 2000, and
Windows XP. Take a look at Alan Wood's
Unicode Resources. It is of course possible to copy a font from one computer to
another, but that is in general not legal. Anyway, 'Arial Unicode MS' is very
large (around 23 MB), while 'Palantino Linotype' is faulty in early
distributions (see Palantino
Linotype), and besides this, good free alternatives exists.
Install a font
When you have downloaded a font, you eventually need to unzip it, in case it came as
a zip-file. You then activate the Windows start button, choose
controlpanel and activate the font icon. This should open a folder with multiple
font files.
If you can see the font-files (in the
folder where you downloaded and/or unzipped them) that you want to install, you now
simply drag them onto the windows font folder opened from the controlpanel, and they will be
installed. Otherwise, in the windows font folder choose File/Install New Font,
and use the opened dialog box to navigate to the folder where you have the new
fonts. Select the fonts and click the ok button.
Enabling Unicode in Browsers
The best resourse we know of is Unicode and Multilingual
Web Browsers
Greek
In order to show the Ancient Greek corpora correctly, you need to have a font
that supports Polytonic Greek, especially Greek extended. Some unicode fonts
follow with the installation of certain Microsoft
products as mentioned above. If you do not have access to these, you can try
- Gentium which is free
(but not open source) and looks nice,
- Cardo, Titus Cyberbit
Basic which are available for non-commercial and non-profit use, or
- MgOldTimes UC Pol, which also looks very nice and is included in demo versions of Polytonistis (for Word 97 and Word
2000), produced by Magenta.
For other alternatives see Alan Wood's
Unicode Resources, Stoa Consortium
Fonts Proposed by our site
Palatino Linotype, Arial Unicode MS, Athena Roman, Code2000, Titus Cyberbit
Basic, Athena, Aisa Unicode, Vusillus Old Face, MgOldTimes UC Pol, Georgia
Greek, Cardo, Gentium.
Japanese
In order to show the Japanese (not the roman-ji one) corpora correctly, you need
to have a font that supports CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Symbols and Punctuation, Hiragana, Katakana,
CJK Unified Ideographs, Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms.
Some free fonts are:
For more information on Bitstream fonts, click here
Fonts Proposed by our site
MS Gothic, MS Mincho, Bitstream CyberBit, Bitstream CyberCJK, Code2000, Arial Unicode MS
Latvian
Fonts Proposed by our site
Russian
Fonts Proposed by our site
Times New Roman, Arial, Lucida Sans, Lucida Sans Unicode, Microsoft Sans Serif, Tahoma, Arial Unicode MS
Unix/linux
Install a font
Greek
In order to show the Ancient Greek corpora correctly, you need to have a font
that supports Polytonic Greek, especially Greek extended.
Fonts Proposed by our site
Caslon, clealyU
Japanese
Fonts Proposed by our site
ClearlyU
Latvian
Fonts Proposed by our site
Russian
Fonts Proposed by our site
Caslon, clearlyU
Mac OS X
Besides using Macintosh fonts in Mac OS X, you also have the possibility of using
TrueType fonts made for Windows. You do not have to convert it to a Macintosh
font.
Install a font
If the font is an archive, use an unzip utility such as StuffIt to extract the font to a
location that you can find later (it doesn't matter where; putting it on the
desktop is easiest, but it can go in any folder you like).
- Open the hard disk where your copy of OS X is stored.
- Open the Library folder.
- Drag the font icon from the desktop (or wherever you put it) onto the
Fonts folder icon in the Library
If you have multiple-user accounts and wish to restrict the font to your own use
only, drag it to the Fonts folder in the Library of your Home folder. You can
access your Home by choosing Go/Home from the Finder menu, or by typing Command-Option-h.
Greek
In order to show the Ancient Greek corpora correctly, you need to have a font
that supports Polytonic Greek, especially Greek extended.
Fonts Proposed by our site
Gentium, GentiumAlt, Everson Mono Unicode.
Japanese
Fonts Proposed by our site
Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Std, Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro,
Hiragino Mincho Pro, Osaka, Osaka-Mono
Latvian
Fonts Proposed by our site
Russian
Fonts Proposed by our site
AppleGothic, AppleMyungjo, Beijing, Fang Song, #GothicMedium, #GungSeo, Hangang,
Hei, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Std, Hiragino Maru Gothic
Pro, Hiragino Mincho Pro, Kai, Lucida Grande, #MyungjoNeue, Osaka, Osaka-Mono,
#PCMyungjo, #PilGi, Seoul, Song, #TaeGraphic
Macintosh OS 9
There is no unicode support for the Macintosh operating system previous to Mac
OS 8.6. For Mac OS 8.6 and Mac OS 9 Unicode support is provided through the
ATSUI libraries. However, the major browsers do not utilise this, instead they
use Apple's WorldScript technology and the fonts designed for Apple's
proprietary encodings. The Opera browser is capable of using Unicode
resource-fork fonts. For a guide to set up a browser under OS 9, please refer to
Alan Wood on
Macintosh OS 9 web browsers
Greek
In order to show the Ancient Greek corpora correctly, you need to have a font
that supports Polytonic Greek, especially Greek extended. Of free fonts we only
know of
Fonts Proposed by our site
Gentium, GentiumAlt, Everson Mono Unicode.
Japanese
Fonts Proposed by our site
ChuGothic, HeiseiKakuGothic, HeiseiKakuGothic, HeiseiMincho, Osaka, Osaka-Mono, SaiMincho
Latvian
Fonts Proposed by our site
Russian
Fonts Proposed by our site
Latinskij, PriamojProp, AppleGothic, AppleMyungjo, Beijing, , ChuGothic, Fang
Song, Gumgseouche, #GothicMedium, #GungSeo, Hangang, Hei, HeiseiMincho, Kai,
Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Std, Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro,
Hiragino Mincho Pro, Kai, Lucida Grande, #MyungjoNeue, Osaka, Osaka-Mono,
#PCMyungjo, #PilGi, Pilgiche, SaiMincho, Seoul, Song, Tahoma, #TaeGraphic
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