[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Website changes (Reiner Kerp)

[John Rauchert]

These links may be of help:

http://www.slovo.info/unifonts.htm

http://www.multikulti.org.uk/help/arial-unicode-ms/

All of the following products have the Microsoft's Arial Unicode font:

Microsoft Office XP
Microsoft Word 2002
Other Microsoft products: Access 2000, Excel 2000, FrontPage 2000, Office 
2000 Premium, Outlook 2000, PowerPoint 2000, Publisher 2000 and Word 2000

John F. Rauchert

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> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:54:06 +0200
> From: "Reiner Kerp" <mail at reiner-kerp.de>
> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Website changes
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> Dear fellow searchers,
>
> as I followed
>
>> http://www.sggee.org/translation_helps and follow the
>> links for Alternate and Given Names.
>
> I saw the links guiding to cyrillic truetype fonts for Windows an Mac.
> This reminded me on a problem, many people have with the special "phonetic
> characters" (IPA-supplement) that are provided by PAF, when a GEDCOM-file
> (UTF-8) is exported. Whithout PAF, you need to install an appropiate
> Unicode-font to read them.
> In the past the font "Arial Unicode MS" (part of MS-Office) was freely
> downloadable from the web. This font includes those characters. Beside it
> was not very senseful to install such a huge (32MB) font for just using 
> only
> a very little part of it, Microsoft has stopped providing Arial Unicode MS
> for free.
>
> Does anybody know a truetype font that provides the PAF characters?
>
> kind regards,
>
> Reiner (Kerp)
>
>
>
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