Custom Font List

The following is the custom font list for the Unicode 6.1 Slide Show and BabelMap Online (defined in unicode.js). When "Use Custom Fonts" is checked the appropriate font list for each block is inserted into the font-family style for the Unicode character to be displayed. The list is biased towards Windows 7, so that if a Windows 7 font covers all the characters in the block it is put at the head of the list; the other fonts are all freeware or unrestricted shareware fonts. I do not know of any freely available font that covers these blocks: Mandaic, Arabic Extended-A, Sundanese Supplement, Bamum, Common Indic Number Forms, Meetei Mayek Extensions, Rumi Numeral Symbols, Brahmi, Kaithi, Sora Sompeng, Chakma, Sharada, Takri, Bamum Supplement, Miao, and Arabic Mathematical Alphabetical Symbols. [Last updated: 2012-05-30]


N.B. Under Windows 7 with no service packs installed, characters in SMP blocks defined in Unicode 5.2 or later will be displayed as two .notdef glyphs, but will be displayed correctly (if you have the fonts) if Windows 7 SP1 has been installed (applications that do not rely on Uniscribe for rendering are not affected by this issue).


These are links to the freeware and shareware fonts mentioned above (other fonts are Windows 7/8 fonts), although not all the links currently work: