Re: Unicode Word 2004 and Windows.

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From: Paul Berkowitz (berkowit_at_spoof_silcom.com)
Date: 11/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:49:56 -0800

On 11/24/04 8:29 AM, in article
Pine.GSO.4.44.0411241727290.17651-100000@s5b004, "Andreas Prilop"
<nhtcapri@rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, John McGhie wrote:
>
>> Regrettably, not all fonts contain the whole list. Alan Wood's information
>> is probably the most accurate and up-to-date. As you point out, Alan says
>> Arial Unicode MS contains 51,180 characters.
>
> No, he doesn't. Alan Wood writes 51 180 glyphs, which is something different.
> For example, one Arabic character usually has four different glyphs.

Right. In this case Alan doesn't say how many characters. Perhaps John's
"32,000" was a good approximation. I can't find an authoritative total
anywhere. Glyph total is probably more useful anyway for fonts that include
multi-glyph characters.

Alan does mention some Mac Office 2004 fonts specifically
(<http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts_macosx.html>):

Times New Roman 3.05 in Office 2004 has 1176 glyphs (v3.00 used in Windows
XP SP2 has 1419 characters (1674 glyphs). )

Arial 3.05 in Office 2004 has 1186 glyphs. (v 3.00 in Windows XP SP2 has
1419 characters (1674 glyphs).)

Verdana 2.45 in Office 2004 has 686 glyphs (he says "glyphs" - maybe he
means "characters"). (v2.43 used in Windows XP SP2 has 680 characters (893
glyphs).)

Trebuchet MS 1.26 in Office 2004 has 583 glyphs.
(v1.23 in Windows XP has 577 characters (576 glyphs). )

MS PGothic 2.52 in Office 2004 has 15,739 characters (22,319 glyphs) v2.30
(Windows XP) has 14,965 characters (20,458 glyphs).

MS Gothic for 2004 same.

MS PMincho 2.52 in Office 2004 has 15,739 characters (19,350 glyphs). v 2.30
(Windows XP) has 14,965 characters (17,807 glyphs).

MS Mincho for 2004 same. 

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