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Unicode BMP Fallback Font
Intended for debugging, this font contains a glyph for every character in the Basic Multilingual plane (including Private Use Area) of Unicode, each glyph consisting of a box enclosing the four hex digits identifying the Unicode scalar value.
Updated!
Now contains glyphs for all Unicode 6.1 BMP characters, and released (with source) under OFL 1.1.
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Installation
Download UnicodeBMPFallback-6.1.zip from the link below. Extract the UnicodeBMPFallback.ttf file from the archive. Drag the .ttf file into the your system's Fonts folder.
Known issues
Due to the way Windows Vista qualifies fonts for Indic scripts, Vista will not display Indic scripts using this font. Other operating systems will.
Current version
This edition of the Unicode BMP Fallback font is released under the SIL Open Font License.
License Terms
Copyright (c) 1994-2012, SIL International (
http://www.sil.org/)
with Reserved Font Name "Unicode BMP Fallback" and "SIL".
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), Version 1.1.
 | Unicode 6.1 BMP fallback font Bob Hallissy, 2012-03-26 Download "UnicodeBMPFallback-6.1.zip", ZIP archive, 530KB [7658 downloads] |
| Unicode 6.1 BMP fallback font — source package Bob Hallissy, 2012-03-26 Download "unicodebmpfallback-6.1.tar.bz2", tar.bz2 compressed file, 18KB [3596 downloads] |
Previous versions:
| Unicode 5.1 BMP fallback font Bob Hallissy, 2008-03-20 Download "UnicodeBMPFallback_51.zip", ZIP archive, 449KB [6487 downloads] |
| Unicode 5.1 BMP fallback font — source package Bob Hallissy, 2008-03-20 Download "UnicodeBMPFallback_source_51.zip", ZIP archive, 43KB [4301 downloads] |
| Unicode 4.1 BMP fallback font Bob Hallissy, 2005-05-20 Download "UnicodeBMPFallback41.zip", ZIP archive, 505KB [5955 downloads] |
| Unicode 4.0.1 BMP fallback font Bob Hallissy, 2004-05-14 Download "UnicodeBMPFallback401.zip", ZIP archive, 498KB [4988 downloads] |
Support
As this font is distributed at no cost, I am unable to provide a commercial level of personal technical support. I am interested in hearing from you, however, and will try to resolve problems that are reported to me. You can send feedback to me here.
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