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	Code2000    [ show all samples ]  (code2000.ttf) Source: Download this shareware font ($5) from James Kass's webpage. Stats: Version 1.16 has 61,864 glyphs and 239 kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Baluchi, Kirghiz, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Armenian, Bengali, Braille, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Chinese (Bopomofo only, including Extended), Cirth, Coptic, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Ethiopic (including supplement and extended blocks), Ewellic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs including Extension A), Klingon, Korean (Hangul only), Lao, Latin, Limbu, Mongolian, N'Ko, Ogham, Phaistos, Runic, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Tengwar, Thaana, Thai, Tifinagh, Vietnamese, Yi OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Buhid, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic, Hangul, Hangul Jamo, Hebrew, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Mongolian, Myanmar, N'Ko, Tamil, Telugu, Thai
	SIL Yi    [ show all samples ]  (silyi.ttf) Source: Free download from SIL International's Yi page. Stats: Version 1.1 has 1,392 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Yi, Latin
	SimSun-18030 and NSimSun-18030    [ show all samples ]  (SimSun18030.ttc from gbextsup.msi) Warning: This font has excessive spacing between Yi characters. Source: Part of the free GB18030 Support Package Stats: Version 2.06 (1.00 for the individual fonts) has 30,891 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Chinese (Jiantizi/Simplified Han Ideographs including Extension A, Bopomofo), Cyrillic (Russian, expanded spacing), Greek (including polytonic, expanded spacing), Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Yi (expanded spacing) OpenType Layout Tables: Han Ideographic (Chinese)

 

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Related Links

• The Unicode implementation of Yi is described in chapter 12 (East Asian Scripts) of The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0.
• The Unicode character code charts are available at the organization's website.
• Andrew West has an excellent page on Yi and Unicode.
• Names, images, properties and additional background/non-technical information about related Unicode blocks and their characters can be found on decodeunicode's Yi Syllables and Yi Radicals pages (in English and German/Deutsch).
• BabelPad is a free, OpenType-enabled Unicode text editor with additional tools and utilities. Yi-specific features include a romanized input method, transliteration tools, and a radical lookup feature.
• Writing system information at Wikipedia and Omniglot.

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