Code2000
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In digital typography, James Kass's Code2000 OpenType font is designed to support as much of the Unicode standard, version 4.0, as possible.
The font is available as shareware from the author's website.
Other well-known Unicode fonts include Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode, and the Free Software Foundation fonts.
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Sample of the Code2000 typeface
The following paragraph is in Code2000 if it is installed on your machine. If not, a monospace font is used:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. 这是一些汉字。 Zhè shì yì xiē Hànzì. Example of IPA transcription: /ɪg'zɑːmpəl əv aɪpiː'eɪ tɹɑːn'skɹɪpʃən/. Greek: Ελληνικά. Cyrillic: Кириллица. Thai: ฟหกดึ้. Khmer: កខ. Arabic: العربية. Scandinavian characters: ÅÄÆÖØ åäæöø.
Unicode Coverage
- Basic Latin
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Latin Extended-A
- Latin Extended-B
- IPA Extensions
- Spacing Modifier Letters
- Combining Diacritical Marks
- Greek and Coptic
- Cyrillic
- Cyrillic Supplementary
- Armenian
- Hebrew
- Arabic
- Syriac
- Thaana
- Devanagari
- Bengali
- Gurmukhi
- Gujarati
- Oriya
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Kannada
- Malayalam
- Thai
- Lao
- Myanmar
- Georgian
- Hangul Jamo
- Ethiopic
- Cherokee
- Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
- Ogham
- Runic
- Buhid
- Khmer
- Mongolian
- Latin Extended Additional
- Greek Extended
- General Punctuation
- Superscripts and Subscripts
- Currency Symbols
- Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols
- Letterlike Symbols
- Number Forms
- Arrows
- Mathematical Operators
- Miscellaneous Technical
- Control Pictures
- Optical Character Recognition
- Enclosed Alphanumerics
- Box Drawing
- Block Elements
- Geometric Shapes
- Miscellaneous Symbols
- Dingbats
- Braille Patterns
- Supplemental Arrows-B
- Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B
- Supplemental Mathematical Operators
- CJK Radicals Supplement
- Kangxi Radicals
- Ideographic Description Characters
- CJK Symbols and Punctuation
- Hiragana
- Katakana
- Bopomofo
- Hangul Compatibility Jamo
- Kanbun
- Bopomofo Extended
- Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
- CJK Compatibility
- CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
- Yijing Hexagram Symbols
- CJK Unified Ideographs
- Yi Syllables
- Yi Radicals
- Hangul Syllables
- Tengwar (ConScript Unicode Registry)
- Cirth (ConScript Unicode Registry)
- Ewellic (ConScript Unicode Registry)
- Phaistos (ConScript Unicode Registry)
- Klingon (ConScript Unicode Registry)
- CJK Compatibility Ideographs
- Alphabetic Presentation Forms
- Arabic Presentation Forms-A
- Combining Half Marks
- CJK Compatibility Forms
- Arabic Presentation Forms-B
- Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Code2001
James Kass has also created Code2001, a freeware test font for Unicode's Plane One.
Code2001 includes support for:
- Old Persian Cuneiform
- Deseret
- Tengwar
- Cirth
- Old Italic
- Gothic
- Aegean Numbers
- Cypriot Syllabary
- Pollard Script
- Ugaritic
ISO-8859-1 characters are also included, as per the specifications.
Old Persian Cuneiform, Tengwar, and Cirth are not yet approved for use in Unicode, and therefore are encoded in Private Use Areas, both in the Basic Multilingual Plane and Plane Fifteen.
Sample of the Code2001 typeface
The following paragraph is in Code2001 if it is installed on your machine. If not, a monospace font is used:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. 这是一些汉字。 Zhè shì yì xiē Hànzì. Example of IPA transcription: /ɪg'zɑːmpəl əv aɪpiː'eɪ tɹɑːn'skɹɪpʃən/. Greek: Ελληνικά. Cyrillic: Кириллица. Thai: ฟหกดึ้. Khmer: កខ. Arabic: العربية. Scandinavian characters: ÅÄÆÖØ åäæöø.
Code2002
James Kass has also released Code2002 as a beta that has limited support for Plane Two.
Unicode's Plane Two includes 40,000 Chinese characters that are not included in Plane One. They are mostly historic, although there are some modern ones. Code2002 currently contains about 40% of these fairly rare characters.
External links
- James Kass's main website (http://home.att.net/~jameskass/)
- Code2000 website (http://home.att.net/~jameskass/code2000_page.htm)
- Code2001 website (http://home.att.net/~jameskass/code2001.htm)

