Saturday, December 13, 2008

Additional Fonts For Windows

After installing a CD edition of Windows Vista, some fonts necessary for displaying international scripts are missing from the default installation. In order to correctly display foreign characters, the following fonts need to be installed.



  • Aegean.otf

    Covers Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, Greek Extended, some Punctuation and other Symbols, Linear B Syllabary, Linear B Ideograms, Aegean Numbers, Ancient Greek Numbers, Ancient Symbols, Phaistos Disc, Lycian, Carian, Old Italic, Ugaritic, Old Persian, Cypriot Syllabary, Phoenician, Lydian, Archaic Greek Musical Notation.
  • TagDoc93.ttf for the Tagalog script which had been used in the ancient Philippines
  • cerg_chi.ttf

    Contains both traditional and simplified Chinese ideographs
  • damase_v.2.ttf

    Covers Armenian, Cherokee, Coptic (Bohairic subset), Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Deseret, Georgian (Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri but no Mkhedruli), Glagolitic, Gothic, Greek (including Coptic characters), Hebrew, Latin, Limbu, Linear B (partial coverage of ideograms and syllabary), Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Osmanya, Phoenician, Shavian, Syloti Nagri (no conjuncts), Tai Le (no combining tone marks), Thaana, Tifinagh, Ugaritic, and Vietnamese.
  • dilyan.ttf for Glagolitic and Cyrillic (Old Church Slavonic) alphabets.
  • hapaxber.ttf for the Tifinagh script which is used to write Berber languages in North Africa.
  • ipagp.ttf to display the Japanese language.
  • malgun.ttf and malgunbd.ttf to display the Korean language.
  • mm3.ttf for the Burmese/Myanmar script.
  • newathu.ttf

    Covers English and Western European languages, polytonic Greek, Coptic, Old Italic, and Demotic Egyptian transliteration, as well as metrical symbols and other characters used by classical scholars.
  • tagbanwa.ttf for the Tagbanwa script which had been used in the ancient Philippines.
  • taileval.ttf for the Tai Le script.


OpenOffice.org 3.0 installs the DejaVu and Open Symbols fonts.

To see a list of fonts installed by Microsoft Office 2007, go here.

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