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    Set screen CSS3 @font-face font-family

    Set screen Font Hosting Services

    Set screen Character Sets - Some History

      The first PC and the first version of the Microsoft operating system only needed a character repertoire of 127 characters derived from 7 bits of 1's and 0's to store written text. Early computer designers, such as those in ASCII (American Society for Computer Information Interchange) assumed an English speaking audience.

      U.S. versions of Microsoft Windows up to and including Windows 95 and Windows NT 4 used a character set defined by the ANSI (the American National Standards Institute). The ANSI set had 217 characters out of 256 possible combinations from 8 bits — a single byte). It is also known as "Windows-1252".

      The ANSI character set consists of a "Basic Latin" range with values 0-127, and a "Latin-1 Supplement" for characters 160-255.

      Apple's proprietary 226-character MacRoman character set uses 95 characters from values 32-126 of the ANSI character set and adds more.

      ANSI is a superset of the ISO-8859-1 character set.

      To the basic ANSI set Microsoft later added the euro currency symbol and introduced a Pan-European font with its proprietary 16-bit WGL4 (Windows Glyph List 4) character set in different 652 character code pages (with page 1252 being the English ANSI character set).

      OEMs (Orginal Equipment Manufacturers) such as IBM made provision for more special characters and languages by replacing the entire code page (identified as 437 in the United States) with a custom code page used by a specific locale.

      The large number of characters in Asian languages led to the development of multibyte character sets, in particular the double-byte character set (DBCS). DBCS character handling requires detailed changes in the character-processing algorithms throughout an application's source code.

      To make localizing applications easier, an international body defined the Unicode standard using 16 bits to define up to 65,536 characters. Unicode-enabled functions are often referred to as "wide-character" functions.

      Using pairs of unicode characters (called "surrogates"), Unicode can support over one million characters.

      Version 2.0 of Unicode supports over one million characters by surrogates — pairs of 16-bit unicode characters. The first (high) surrogate is a 16-bit code value in the range U+D800 to U+DBFF. The second (low) surrogate is a 16-bit code value in the range U+DC00 to U+DFFF.

      Microsoft began supporting surrogates with Windows 2000 (not 95/98/Me) with cmap 12 OpenType font format and surrogate-enabled IMEs.

      Since Windows disables surrogate support by default, two registry values must be set to enable surrogate support:

      [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\LanguagePack] SURROGATE=(REG_DWORD)0x00000002

      [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\International\Scripts\42] IEFixedFontName=[Surrogate Font Face Name] IEPropFontName=[Surrogate Font Face Name]

     

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    Set screen Browser Fonts

      According to Alan Wood's notes on web browsers:

    • The Arial Unicode MS font aruniupd.exe. Version 0.86. TTF. 13,687.66 KB) includes all the characters in version 2.0 of the Unicode standard. It is no longer available for free download from Microsoft's Typography web site, but as a part of Microsoft products Windows XP, Office 2000, and Publisher.

      The Windows 2000 Character Map does not offer all of the Unicode ranges and thus often can't offer all of the glyphs in a font's repertoire.

      Caution! Download fonts only from known reputable sources, because errors in fonts is a known way to crash the ATMFD.DLL CFF (Compact Font Format) font driver or even take over a MSWindows system, simply by clicking on a font icon.

      Microsoft created OpenType fonts after it balked at license fees for Adobe's superior Type 1 Postscript fonts.

    • Code2000 (code2000.zip. Version beta 1.13. TTF. Size: 1,218.53 KB) is a shareware Unicode font

    • Lucida Sans Unicodea non-profit, scientific educational organization of Christian volunteers (lsansuni.zip, Version 2.00. TTF. Size: 177.16 KB) from Bigelow & Holmes, supplied with a pre-release SDK for Microsoft Windows NT 3.1 in March 1993.

    • Bitstream offers its True-Type Cyberbit (cyberbit.zip. Version beta 2.00. TTF. Size: 6,210.58 KB) font

      The 'TITUS Cyberbit Basic' font is a derivative of the Bitstream Cyberbit font developed by TITUS for compliance with Unicode 4.0 (tu30560.zip)

    • Palatino Linotype (palab.zip, Version 1.40. TTF. Size: 999.01 KB) is a graceful serif font designed in 1948 by Zapf at Stempel AG

    • XSerif Unicode (xsuni.zip, Version 1.00. TTF. Size: 50.59 KB)

    • The Summer Institute of Linguistics (a non-profit which prepares Bible translators) has several fonts and other computing resources designed for Unicode, especially Biblical Greek and Hebrew.




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    Set screen Microsoft Font Files

      Browsers display little boxes instead of characters when you don't have your browser set to use international fonts. Question marks take the place of characters displayed with incorrect encoding.

      MS Font Properties Extension v2.1

      The "OS/2" table of a TrueType 1.0 font file contains information about its typeface weight, superscripts, strikeouts, ascender/descender values, PANOSE classification, licensing info, and more.

      Installing Fonts

      In Windows, there are two ways to install a font:

      1. Copy the .FON file into folder C:\Windows\Fonts, or
      2. use the Font icon in the Control Panel.

      To make Microsoft Developer Studio recognize a custom font:
      In V6, set the font in [Tools Menu][Options][Format Tab][Category]="Source windows" [Font]="Programmer"
      In .NET, set the font in [Tools Menu][Options][Environment][Fonts and colors][Text Editor][Font]="Programmer"


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    Set screen Custom Fonts


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    Set screen CSS Font Size Specifications

      CSS tag English
      px A pixel (picture element) is the distance between one dot and another on a computer screen.
      pc Each pica is 12 points.
      pt Each point is 1/72 inch. On screens with 72 dpi resolution. On screens with 90 dpi resolution.
      em The body size of the font. 1.0 em specifies the full size of the font. 0.5 em specifies 6 of 12 points for a 12 point font.

      A point is 1/72 of an inch, but the actual size of the font when displayed varies on different machines, depending on the resolution of the screen. The lower the resolution of the screen, the larger the font will display.


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    Set screen Java Fonts

      Java 2 fonts have a family name, a logical font name, and a face name.

      Jave 2 JRE supplied fonts: Dialog (the default), DialogInput, Sans Serif, Serif, Monospaced, and Symbol

      Family Name Logical Category Face Name Note
      TimesRoman Serif TimesRoman Bold
      Courier Monospaced TimesRoman Bold Courier Italic


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