The Design of a Unicode Font
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The international scope of computing, digital information interchange, and electronic publishing has created a need for world-wide character encoding standards. Unicode is a comprehensive standard designed to meet such a need. To be readable by humans, character codes require fonts that provide visual images glyphs corresponding to the codes. The design of a font developed to provide a portion of the Unicode standard is described and discussed.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Electronic Publishing
دوره 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1993