WD: Foreign Language Fonts by Linguist's Software

Last reviewed: February 10, 1998
Article ID: Q95473
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c
  • Microsoft Word for Windows 95, versions 7.0, 7.0a
  • Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
  • Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, versions 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.1a
  • Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition

SUMMARY

Foreign Language Fonts are available from Linguist's Software for use with all Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 3.1, and Macintosh applications that use fonts.

MORE INFORMATION

Linguist's Software produces professional-quality, hinted, scaleable foreign font packages in both TrueType and Type-1 format.

The foreign language font package also includes a Keyboard Switcher utility providing four characters per key in Windows (and the EuroScript utility providing four characters per key in Macintosh applications), a User's Manual, keyboard layout charts, ANSI Tables, and keycap sticker sheets.

Linguist's Software Language Fonts Include

Acholi, Afrikaans, Agni, Akkadian, Akuapim, Albanian, Aleut, Amharic, Anglo-Saxon Rune-Row, Anyi, Arabic, Arad, Armenian, Ashante, Assinaboin, Athapaskan, Avar, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Azeri, Bantu, Bashkir, Basque, Belarus, Bemba, Bengali, Bislama, Blackfoot, Bobangi, Bohairic, Bohemian, Breton, Brong, Bulgarian, Buluba-Lulua, Buriat, Burmese, Byelorussian, Caddoan, Cambodian, Canadian French, Cantonese Chinese, Catalan (Catalonian), Cebuano, Chamorro, Chechen, Cheremis, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Chikaranga, Chiluba, Chinese, Chinyanja, Chippewa, Chiswina, Choctaw, Chukchi, Chuvash, Clallam, Coeur d'Alene, Columbian, Comox, Coptic, Cornish, Cowlitz, Cree, Creek, Croatian, Crow, Czech, Dakota, Danish, Danish Runes, Devanagari, Dictionary symbols, Dungan, Dutch, English, Erse, Erzya, Eskimo, Esperanto, Estonian (Esthonian), Estrangela, Estrangelo, Ethiopic, Evenki, Ewe, Fang, Faroese, Farsi, Fayumic, Fijian, Finnish, Flathead, Flemish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Fulani-Adamawa, Fulfulde, Futhark, Futark of Breza, Futhark of Kylver, Futhark of Vadstena, Gã, Gaelic, Ganda, Geez, Georgian, German, German-Saxon Rune-Row, Gezer, Gikuyu, Glagolitic, Greek (Biblical and Classical), Greek (Modern), Guarani, Gujarati, Gurage, Gwich'in, Gypsy, Halkomelem, Hän, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hieroglyphics, Hindi, Hmong, Hopi, Hottentot (Namaquah), Hul'qumi'num', Hungarian, Hupa, Hwech'in, Ibo (Igbo), Icelandic, Indonesian, Inuktitut, IPA, Irish, Irish Gaelic, Iroquoian, Italian, Jacobite, Japanese, Kabardian, Kalispel, Kalmyk, Kannada, Kanarese, Kanuri, Kaska, Kazakh, Khmer, Kikongo, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Kirghiz, Kirundi, Kolam, Komi, Kongo, Kootenai, Korean, Kpelle, Krio, Kurdish, Kwakiutl, Kwakwala, Lachish, Ladin, Lak, Lakota, Laotian, Lappish, Latin, Latvian, Lettish, Lezgin, Lillooet, Lingala, Lithuanian, Lower Chehalis, Lower Sorbian, Lower Tanana, Luba, Lu-Ganda, Lusatian, Lushootseed, Luxembourgesh (Luxembourgian), Macedonian, Macedonian, Madurese, Maidu, Malagasy, Malay (romanized), Malayalam (Malgache), Malinke, Maltese, Mandarin Chinese, Manx Gaelic, Maori, Marathi, Mari, Marshallese, Masai, Mashona, Melanesian, Menominee, Middle English, Mohawk, Moksha, Moldavian, Mole, Mongolian, Mordvin, Moré, Mossi, Muskogee (Muskokee), Nahuatl, Nakota, Namaquah-Hottentot, Navaho (Navajo), Nenets, Nepali, Nestonian, Nooksack, Northern Straits, Northern Tutchone, Norwegian, Nyanja, Nyika, Ogham, Ojibway, Okanagan, Old Church Slavic (Old Church Slavonic), Old English, Old Irish, Old Linear Phoenician, Old Slavonic, Omaha, Oriya, Osage, Ossetian, Ostyak, Otchipwe, Papiamento, Pentlatch, Persian, Phonetics, Pidgin English (Melanesian), Pilipino, Polish, Portuguese, Provencal, Punjabi, Pushtu, Quechua, Quinalt, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romanian, Romansch, Romany, Ruanda, Rundi, Russian, Sabean, Sahadic, Samaritan, Samoan, Sanskrit, Santi, Saxon, Scottish Gaelic, Seneca, Serbian, Seshelt, Sesotho, Setswana, Shona, Shuna, Shuswap, SIL, Siloam, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Sioux, Siswati, Slovak, Slovenian, Sm'algyax, Snohomish, Somali, Sorbian, Sotho, Southern Tutchone, Spanish, Squamish, Stony, Sundanese, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Swedo-Norwegian ("short-twig" runes), Syriac, Tadzhik, Tagalog (Pilipino), Tagish, Tahitian, Tahltan, Tamil, Tanacross, Tanana, Tatar, Tartar, Tebele, TECH (scientific and mathematical equations), Telugu, Temne, Tewa, Thai, Thompson, Tibetan, Tigre, Tigrinya, Tillamook, Tlingit, Tongan, Transliteration, Tsimshian, Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen, Turkoman, Tuvan, Twana, Twi, Udmurt, Ugaritic, Uighur, Ukrainian (Ukran), Umbundu, Upper Chehalis, Upper Sorbian, Upper Tanacross, Upper Tanana, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Visayan, Welsh, Welsh Gaelic, Wendish, Wolof, Xosa, Yakut, Yao, Yapese, Yiddish, Yoruba, Younger Futhark, Yurak, Zakkur Zulu, Zulu-Kafir, Zuñi.

Windows Localized Versions Available

   Arabic
   Chinese
   Hebrew
   Japanese
   Korean

System Requirements

The system requirements for running Linguist's Software are as follows:

IBM Compatible Systems:

  • MS-DOS or PC-DOS version 3.1 or later
  • Windows 3.1 or Windows 95
  • An IBM PC/AT or 100-percent compatible computer with an Intel 386 or greater processor
  • A Windows-compatible graphics card
  • A Windows-supported dot-matrix, ink jet, or laser printer

Macintosh Systems:
  • Macintosh System 6.0.7 or newer
  • Macintosh SE-30 or newer
  • A Macintosh-supported dot-matrix, ink jet, or laser printer

For more information about the foreign language fonts available, see the Linguist's Software site at the following location on the World Wide Web:

   http://www.linguistsoftware.com

For more information about how to contact Linguist's Software, query in the Knowledge Base for one of the following articles:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q65416
   TITLE     : Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, A-K

   ARTICLE-ID: Q60781
   TITLE     : Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, L-P

   ARTICLE-ID: Q60782
   TITLE     : Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, Q-Z

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Additional query words: international characters true type
Keywords : kbfont
Version : MACINTOSH: 6.0 6.0.1 6.0.1a 98 | WINDOWS: 6.0 6.0a 6.0c 7.0 7.0a 97
Platform : MACINTOSH WINDOWS


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Last reviewed: February 10, 1998
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