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The Unicode standard does not specify or create any font (), a collection of graphical shapes called glyphs, itself.Rather, it defines the abstract characters as a specific number (known as a code point) and also defines the required changes of shape depending on the context the glyph is used in (e.g., combining characters, precomposed characters and letter-diacritic combinations).
The "Included from" column indicates the first edition of Windows in which the font was included. Included typefaces with versions ... Lucida Sans Unicode [6] Sans ...
A Unicode font is a computer font that maps glyphs to code points defined in the Unicode Standard. [8] The vast majority of modern computer fonts use Unicode mappings, even those fonts which only include glyphs for a single writing system , or even only support the basic Latin alphabet .
Its companion fonts, Unifont Upper and Unifont CSUR, have significant coverage of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane and the ConScript Unicode Registry, respectively. For version 12.1.02, Unifont JP was released, which covers 10,000 Japanese kanji present in the JIS X 0213 character set, some of which are in the Supplementary Ideographic Plane .
Church Slavonic Fonts in Unicode collection OFL: 2020-09-06 / 2.2 A collection of fonts designed for Cyrillic and Glagolitic scripts used for the Church Slavonic liturgical language. CMU family: OFL: 2012-08-29 / 0.7.0 An updated version of Computer Modern (CMU is an abbreviation for Computer Modern Unicode). Culmus collection of fonts
In version 13.0, Unicode was extended with another block containing many graphics characters, Symbols for Legacy Computing, which includes a few box-drawing characters and other symbols used by obsolete operating systems (mostly from the 1980s).
HTML and XML provide ways to reference Unicode characters when the characters themselves either cannot or should not be used. A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name. A numeric character reference uses the ...
Block Elements is a Unicode block containing square block symbols of various fill and shading. Used along with block elements are box-drawing characters, shade characters, and terminal graphic characters. These can be used for filling regions of the screen and portraying drop shadows. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was Blocks. [3]