Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Unicode 3.0 Scripts

Unicode 3.0, released in September 1999, included 10 scripts not currently part of OS X. Here is the status of their usability on the Mac as far as I know. Where there is a font but no keyboards, characters can of course still be entered directly using the Character Palette.

Syriac

Fonts: Beth Mardutho
Keyboards: Pormann and AramaicNT


Thaana

Fonts: Code2000, Free Serif, MPH 2B Damase, MV Boli, Mv Elaaf, Mv GroupX Avas, Mv Iyyu, Mv Lady Luck, Mv MAG Round, Mv Sega, Thaana Unicode Akeh, TITUS Cyberbit Basic
Keyboards: Quinon


Sinhala

Fonts: Xenotypetech
Keyboards: Xenotypetech


Myanmar

Fonts: Xenotypetech
Keyboards: Xenotypetech

Ethiopic

Fonts: SIL
Keyboards: SIL

Ogham

Fonts: ALPHABETUM Unicode, Caslon, Code2000, Everson Mono Unicode, Fixedsys Excelsior, TITUS Cyberbit Basic, Beith-Luis-Nion, Beth-Luis-Nion, Cog, Craobh Ruadh, Crosta, Everson Mono Ogham, Maigh Nuad, Pollach, Ragnarok Ogham, TITUS Ogham
Keyboards: Evertype

Runic

Fonts: ALPHABETUM Unicode, Cardo, Caslon, Chrysanthi Unicode, Code2000, Everson Mono Unicode, Fixedsys Excelsior, Free Monospaced, Hnias, Junicode, TITUS Cyberbit Basic, Junicode
Keyboards: Thomaswebb Rune Keyboard

Khmer

Fonts: Xenotypetech
Keyboards: Xenotypetech

Mongolian

Fonts: Code2000, NSimSun-18030, SimSun-18030, STFangsong, STHeiti, STKaiti, STSong
Keyboards: Manchu Keyboard

Yi

Fonts: Code2000, NSimSun-18030, SIL Yi, SimSun-18030, STFangsong, STHeiti, STKaiti, STSong
Keyboards: yi16.txt.dat

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