Code2000
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Typeface | Code2000 |
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Category | |
Designer(s) | James Kass |
Variations | Code2001, Code2002 |
Code2000 is a digital font which includes characters and symbols from a very large range of writing systems. The font is designed and implemented by James Kass to include as much of the Unicode 4.0 standard as possible, and to support OpenType digital typography features. Code2001 and Code2002 are related fonts which support characters in higher Unicode planes.
The font is available as shareware from the author's website.
Other well-known Unicode fonts include Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode, TITUS Cyberbit Basic and the Free software Unicode fonts.
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- Basic Latin
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Latin Extended-A
- Latin Extended-B
- IPA Extensions
- Spacing Modifier Letters
- Combining Diacritical Marks
- Greek and Coptic
- Cyrillic
- Cyrillic Supplementary
- Armenian
- Hebrew
- Arabic
- Syriac
- Thaana
- Devanagari
- Bengali
- Gurmukhi
- Gujarati
- Oriya
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Kannada
- Malayalam
- Thai
- Lao
- Myanmar
- Georgian
- Hangul Jamo
- Ethiopic
- Cherokee
- Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
- Ogham
- Runic
- Buhid
- Khmer
- Mongolian
- Latin Extended Additional
- Greek Extended
- General Punctuation
- Superscripts and Subscripts
- Currency Symbols
- Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols
- Letterlike Symbols
- Number Forms
- Arrows
- Mathematical Operators
- Miscellaneous Technical
- Control Pictures
- Optical Character Recognition
- Enclosed Alphanumerics
- Box Drawing
- Block Elements
- Geometric Shapes
- Miscellaneous Symbols
- Dingbats
- Braille Patterns
- Supplemental Arrows-B
- Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B
- Supplemental Mathematical Operators
- CJK Radicals Supplement
- Kangxi Radicals
- Ideographic Description Characters
- CJK Symbols and Punctuation
- Hiragana
- Katakana
- Bopomofo
- Hangul Compatibility Jamo
- Kanbun
- Bopomofo Extended
- Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
- CJK Compatibility
- CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
- Yijing Hexagram Symbols
- CJK Unified Ideographs
- Yi Syllables
- Yi Radicals
- Hangul Syllables
- Tengwar (ConScript Unicode Registry)
- Cirth (ConScript Unicode Registry)
- Ewellic (ConScript Unicode Registry)
- Phaistos (ConScript Unicode Registry)
- Klingon (ConScript Unicode Registry)
- CJK Compatibility Ideographs
- Alphabetic Presentation Forms
- Arabic Presentation Forms-A
- Combining Half Marks
- CJK Compatibility Forms
- Arabic Presentation Forms-B
- Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
[edit] Code2001
James Kass has also created Code2001, a freeware test font for Unicode's Plane One (the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, mostly used for historic language scripts).
Code2001 includes support for:
- Old Persian Cuneiform
- Deseret
- Tengwar
- Cirth
- Old Italic
- Gothic
- Aegean numbers
- Cypriot syllabary
- Pollard script
- Shavian script
- Ugaritic
ISO-8859-1 characters are also included, as per the specifications.
Old Persian Cuneiform, Tengwar, and Cirth are not yet approved for use in Unicode, and therefore are encoded in Private Use Areas, both in the Basic Multilingual Plane and Plane Fifteen.