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Article #607Re: "Universal" font
From: Michael_Mueller-Hillebrand
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:57
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:57
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Many folks wanted to have a single font for all purposes and "Arial Unicode MS" is the one many people use. But it is basically a bad idea, not only because this font has no bold or italic variants, it also has no kerning pairs. The result are ugly documents with bolded and obliqued characters. Unicode is a standard that assigns a number to each character, but does not take into account differing typographic traditions. Please read the answer to question 3 "Does the unified Han encoding..." at this page: <http://unicode.org/faq/han_cjk.html> I would say you better look for a font that contains all Latin/Cyrillic/Greek glyphs, and a specialized font for Chinese, Japanese and Korean. This approach will give you far greater quality.
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