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Code2000 is a digital font which includes characters and symbols from a very large range of writing systems. The font is designed and implemented by James Kass to include as much of the Unicode 4.0 standard as possible, and to support OpenType digital typography features. Code2001 and Code2002 are related fonts which support characters in higher Unicode planes. In typography, a typeface consists of a co-ordinated set of grapheme (i. ... A writing system, also called a script, is a type of symbolic system used to represent elements or statements expressible in language. ... Technical note: Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... OpenType is a scalable computer font format initially developed by Microsoft, later joined by Adobe Systems. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...


The font is available as shareware from the author's website. Shareware is a marketing method for software, whereby a trial version is distributed in advance and without payment, as is common for proprietary software. ...


Other well-known Unicode fonts include Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode, TITUS Cyberbit Basic and the Free software Unicode fonts. In digital typography, Arial Unicode MS is an OpenType font based on the Arial font. ... In digital typography, 's Lucida Sans Unicode OpenType font is designed to support the most commonly used characters defined in version 2. ... Titus Cyberbit Basic is a Unicode font designed by Bitstream and the TITUS (Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien) for Unicode 4. ... A few projects exist to provide free software Unicode fonts, i. ...

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Critics

The font has a very wide coverage of character sets. However, the glyphs for Unihan are badly shaped: Han unification is the process used by the authors of Unicode and the Universal Character Set to map multiple character sets of the CJK languages into a single set of unified characters. ...

  • Half of the characters are missing
  • Quite many of the characters are misplaced or have a wrong glyph (For example, “持” is replaced by “扗”)
  • Many locale varieties of characters are all given the Japanese glyph.

On the other hand, the support for Mongolian alphabet of this font is the best among the fonts available in public. The Mongolian language historically has four writing systems that have been used over the centuries. ...


Unicode Coverage

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) used in spoken human language. ... A diacritic mark or accent mark is an additional mark added to a basic letter. ... Coptic letters in a florid Bohairic script The Coptic alphabet is an alphabet used for writing the Coptic language. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... This article is mainly about Hebrew letters. ... The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing in the Arabic language. ... 11th century book in Syriac Serto. ... Thaana is the writing system for the Dhivehi language spoken in the Maldives. ... Rigveda manuscript in Devanagari (early 19th century) DevanāgarÄ« (देवनागरी — in English pronounced ) (ISCII – IS13194:1991) [1] is an abugida alphabet used to write several Indian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Bihari, Bhili, Konkani, Bhojpuri and Nepali from Nepal. ... The Bengali script is an Abugida system of writing belonging to the Brahmic family of scripts whose use is associated with the Bengali, Assamese, Manipuri and Sylheti languages. ... The GurmukhÄ« (ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ or ਗੁਰਮੁੱਖੀ) script, derived from the Later Sharada script and standardised by Guru Angad Dev in the 16th century, was designed to write the Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) language. ... Excerpt from My experiments with truth - the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi in its original Gujarati script. ... The Oriya script is used to write the Oriya language. ... The Tamil script is an abugida which has 12 vowels and 18 consonants. ... Telugu script, an abugida from the Brahmic family of scripts, is used to write the Telugu language. ... The Kannada script is an abugida of the Brahmic family, primarily to write the Kannada language, one of the Dravidian languages in India. ... The Malayalam script is an abugida of the Brahmic family, used to write the Malayalam language. ... Amharic (አማርኛ ’amarñña) is a Semitic language spoken in North Central Ethiopia. ... Original distribution of the Cherokee language Cherokee (Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩ) is an Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee people. ... Canadian aboriginal syllabic writing (often syllabics for short) is a family of writing schemes which are used to write a number of aboriginal Canadian languages from the Algonquian, Athabaskan and Inuit language families. ... Ogham (Old Irish Ogam) was an alphabet used primarily to represent Gaelic languages. ... Technical note: Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog translated into Khmer. ... A dingbat is a ornament or spacer used in typesetting, sometimes more formally known as a printers ornament. The term supposedly originated as onomatopoeia in old style metal-type print shops, where extra space around text or illustrations would be filled by dinging an ornament into the space... The braille system, named after Louis Braille, is a method that is widely used by blind people to read and write. ... Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 Rōmaji ローマ字 Category Hiragana ) are a Japanese syllabary, one of the three main Japanese writing systems, along with katakana and kanji. ... Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 Rōmaji ローマ字 Katakana (片仮名) are a Japanese syllabary, one of the four Japanese writing systems. ... Zh yīn F o (注音符號), or Symbols for Annotating Sounds, often abbreviated as Zhuyin, or known as Bopomofo (ㄅㄆㄇㄈ) for the first four syllables of these Chinese phonetic symbols, is the national phonetic system of the Republic of China (based on Taiwan) for teaching the Chinese languages, especially Standard Mandarin... The Yi people (Chinese: 彝族 Yìzú, own name: Nosu) are a modern ethnic group in China. ... Hangul is the native alphabet used to write the Korean language, as opposed to the hanja system borrowed from China. ... First article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (in English) The Tengwar are an artificial script which was invented by J. R. R. Tolkien. ... The ConScript Unicode Registry is a volunteer project to coordinate the assignment of code points in the Unicode Private Use Area for the encoding of artificial scripts. ... This chart showing the runes shared by the Angerthas Daeron and Angerthas Moria is presented in Appendix E of The Return of the King. ... The ConScript Unicode Registry is a volunteer project to coordinate the assignment of code points in the Unicode Private Use Area for the encoding of artificial scripts. ... The ConScript Unicode Registry is a volunteer project to coordinate the assignment of code points in the Unicode Private Use Area for the encoding of artificial scripts. ... Phaistos (Greek: Φαιστός), also Phaestos and Phaestus was an ancient city on the island of Crete. ... The ConScript Unicode Registry is a volunteer project to coordinate the assignment of code points in the Unicode Private Use Area for the encoding of artificial scripts. ... The Klingon language or Klingonese (tlhIngan Hol in Klingon) is a constructed language (an artistic language created by Marc Okrand for Paramount Pictures and spoken by Klingons in the fictional Star Trek universe). ... The ConScript Unicode Registry is a volunteer project to coordinate the assignment of code points in the Unicode Private Use Area for the encoding of artificial scripts. ...

Code2001

James Kass has also created Code2001, a freeware test font for Unicode's Plane One (the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, mostly used for historic language scripts). Freeware is computer software which is: Made available free of charge. ... Unicode reserves 1,114,112 (= 220 + 216) code points, and currently assigns characters to more than 96,000 of those code points. ...


Code2001 includes support for:

ISO-8859-1 characters are also included, as per the specifications. Sketch of the first column of the Behistun Inscription Old Persian is the oldest attested Persid language. ... The Cuneiform script is one of the earliest known forms of written expression. ... The Deseret alphabet is a phonetic alphabet developed in the mid-19th century by the board of regents of the University of Deseret (later the University of Utah) under the direction of Brigham Young, second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ... First article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (in English) The Tengwar are an artificial script which was invented by J. R. R. Tolkien. ... This chart showing the runes shared by the Angerthas Daeron and Angerthas Moria is presented in Appendix E of The Return of the King. ... Old Italic refers to a number of related historical alphabets used on the Italian peninsula which were used for some non-Indo-European languages (Etruscan and probably North Picene), various Indo-European languages belonging to the Italic branch (Faliscan and members of the Sabellian group, including Oscan, Umbrian, and South... Representation of the Gothic alphabet surrounding its inventor Ulfilas The Gothic alphabet is an alphabetic writing system attributed to Wulfila used exclusively for writing the ancient Gothic language. ... Aegean civilization is the general term for the prehistoric civilizations in Greece and the Aegean. ... The Cypriot Syllabary is a syllabic script used in Cyprus up to 4th century B.C, when it was substituted by the greek alphabet. ... Samuel Pollard (1864-04-20 in Camelford, Cornwall – 1915-09-16 in China) was a Methodist missionary to China who converted many of the Big Flowery Miao (now called the Hmong) in Guizhou to Christianity, and who created a writing system that is still in use today. ... Posthumously funded by and named for Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, the Shavian alphabet (also known as Shaw alphabet) was conceived as a way to provide simple, phonetic orthography for the English language to replace the difficulties of the conventional spelling. ... The Ugaritic alphabet is a cuneiform version of the Levantine consonant alphabet (abjad), used from around 1300 BC for the Ugaritic language, an extinct Canaanite language discovered in Ugarit, Syria. ... ISO 8859-1, more formally cited as ISO/IEC 8859-1 or less formally as Latin-1, is part 1 of ISO/IEC 8859, a standard character encoding defined by ISO. It encodes what it refers to as Latin alphabet no. ...


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. Unicode reserves 1,114,112 (= 220 + 216) code points, and currently assigns characters to more than 96,000 of those code points. ... Unicode reserves 1,114,112 (= 220 + 216) code points, and currently assigns characters to more than 96,000 of those code points. ... Unicode reserves 1,114,112 (= 220 + 216) code points, and currently assigns characters to more than 96,000 of those code points. ...


External links

  • James Kass's main website
  • Code2000 website
  • Code2001 website

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Code2000 - definition of Code2000 in Encyclopedia (311 words)
In digital typography, James Kass's Code2000 OpenType font is designed to support as much of the Unicode standard, version 4.0, as possible.
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