Re: Arial Unicode MS and the International Phonetic Alphabet

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Hi

A quite tricky thing to install but the instructions are on the page and you
just have to pay attention.
Incidentally, the fonts were first placed in Windows>System and not
Windows>Fonts by the install package.
From Configuration>Fonts, go to File and click on install new fonts.
Then find in Windows>System and install.
Fonts then appear in list of fonts in windows but I find it easier to go to
Insert>Special Characters to see the IPA characters.

Thanks again and good luck to anyone who tries to install these fonts
"Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman@xxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
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Hi Dave,

Get IPA fonts at http://scripts.sil.org/encore-ipa.

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Dave Neve wrote:
Hello

I've read the extract below off the Microsost site but I
can't find the Arial Unicode MS font although I have XP.

But I have a sneaky feeling that I haven't quite
understood sth.

What I really want is the entire International Phonetic
Alphabet in one place (like a subgroup) when I open 'special
characters'

Can anyone help?

Thanks

Dave Neve


Note If you are using Microsoft Windows XP, the
universal font for Unicode is automatically installed.
Arial Unicode MS font is a full Unicode (Unicode: A
character encoding standard developed by the Unicode Consortium. By
using more than one byte to represent each character, Unicode enables
almost all of the written languages in the world to be represented by
using a single character set.) font. It contains all of the
characters, ideographs, and symbols defined in the Unicode 2.1
standard.



1.. Note Because of its considerable size and the
typographic compromises required to make such a font, Arial Unicode
MS should be used only when you can't use multiple fonts tuned for
different writing systems. For example, if you have multilingual data
from many different writing systems in Microsoft Access, you can use
Arial Unicode MS as the font to display the data tables, because
Access can't accept many different fonts.





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