Code2000 is a pan-Unicode digital font, which includes characters and symbols from a very large range of writing systems. As of the current version 1.171 released in 2008, Code2000 is designed and implemented by James Kass to include as much of the Unicode 5.1 standard as practical (whereas 6.0 is the currently-released version), and to support OpenType digital typography features. Code2000 supports Basic Multilingual Plane, while Code2001 and Code2002 as related fonts created by James Kass, supports characters in higher Unicode planes. All fonts are usable in Windows Me at least through Internet Explorer 5.5.
Designer(s) | James Kass |
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Date released | 2008, v1.171 |
The fonts are available as unrestricted shareware from the author's website.
Code2001
The names in the following list are taken directly from the Unicode standard.
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It also includes several scripts not officially recognized, in the Unicode Private Use Area:
Code2001
This is a second font in the Code 2000 family. It covers the Unicode Plane One Supplementary Multilingual Plane, mostly used for historic language scripts. The majority of these glyphs are not found in Code 2000.
Code2001 includes support for:
- ISO-8859-1 characters
- Linear B
- Aegean numbers
- Phaistos
- Old Italic
- Gothic
- Ugaritic
- Old Persian Cuneiform
- Deseret
- Shavian script
- Osmanya
- Cypriot syllabary
- Phoenician
- Byzantine Musical Symbols
- Musical Symbols
- Tai Xuan Jing Symbols
- Counting Rod Numerals
- Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (including the ones in the Letter-like Symbols block)
- Domino Tiles
This font covers a few characters in the Unicode Plane Two Supplementary Ideographic Plane. It also covers a few tags in Unicode Plane Fourteen Supplementary Special-purpose Plane
Also included are:
- Tengwar
- Cirth
- Pollard script
The first two are not yet approved for use in Unicode, and therefore are encoded in the Plane Fifteen Private Use Area and the Basic Multilingual Plane. (As noted above, the former two are also available in Code2000.) The Pollard Script is approved for Unicode, but it won't be in until version 6.1.
Code2002
This is a third font in the Code 2000 family. The glyphs in this font are not part of either Code 2000 or Code 2001.
This font partially covers the Unicode Plane Two Supplementary Ideographic Plane. This is a Supplementary Plane used for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ideographs. Roughly 40% of Plane Two is included in this font.
See also
Other well-known Unicode fonts include: