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Unicode is a specialized font for medievalists, with an enormous number of variant letterforms, which are assigned to the Private Use Area of [[:category:Unicode|Unicode]]. It adheres to the [[MUFI]] conventions that have been adopted by medievalists to supplement Unicode.
Unicode is a specialized font for medievalists, with an enormous number of variant letterforms, which are assigned to the Private Use Area of [[:category:Unicode|Unicode]]. It adheres to the [[MUFI]] conventions that have been adopted by medievalists to supplement Unicode.


From the website (accessed 2012-06-21):
From the website (accessed 2019-05-22):


<blockquote><p>Version 0.7.7 contains 3280 characters in the regular style (the italic, bold and bold italic styles are less complete). These Unicode ranges are either complete in the regular style or they contain substantial numbers of glyphs (especially those of interest to medievalists):</p>
<blockquote> Junicode (short for Junius-Unicode) is a TrueType/OpenType font for medievalists with extensive coverage of the Latin Unicode ranges, plus Runic and Gothic. The font comes in four faces. Of these, regular and italic are fullest, featuring complete implementation of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative recommendation, version 4.0. The bold and bold italic faces are less full.</blockquote>
 
*Basic Latin
*Latin 1 Supplement
*Latin Extended A
*Latin Extended B
*Latin Extended D
*Latin Extended Additional
*IPA Extensions
*Phonetic Extensions
*Spacing Modifier Letters
*Greek
*Greek Extended
*Combining Diacritical Marks
*Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement
*Runic
*Number Forms
*Enclosed Alphanumerics
*General Punctuation
*Superscripts and Subscripts
*Gothic
</blockquote>


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 15:33, 15 May 2019

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Description

Unicode is a specialized font for medievalists, with an enormous number of variant letterforms, which are assigned to the Private Use Area of Unicode. It adheres to the MUFI conventions that have been adopted by medievalists to supplement Unicode.

From the website (accessed 2019-05-22):

Junicode (short for Junius-Unicode) is a TrueType/OpenType font for medievalists with extensive coverage of the Latin Unicode ranges, plus Runic and Gothic. The font comes in four faces. Of these, regular and italic are fullest, featuring complete implementation of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative recommendation, version 4.0. The bold and bold italic faces are less full.

See also