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SIL Vai Font Requirements
Note:
These fonts are still custom (legacy) 8-bit fonts. They are not Unicode fonts. We do not recommend that you use the font. However, we do provide links to some Unicode resources below:
- Unicode Fonts: — Two Vai Unicode fonts are available
here. is based on . Windows 7 provides a Unicode font with Vai support called . - Unicode Keyboards: — A Windows Keyman keyboard is available here: Known Unicode Keyman Keyboards. A MacOSX keyboard is available here. An online Vai input tool (beta) Vai Graphical and Keyboard Input Interface.
- TECkit mapping files for converting text to Unicode are provided here.
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The SIL Vai fonts are not Unicode fonts. These fonts were designed for the following systems:
- Windows 98
- Windows 95
- Windows 3.1
The fonts will also work in Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The keyboard has been tested in WinME and WinXP. It has not been tested on other systems, but it should work.
Windows users will also need the Keyman keyboarding utility. It is not included in the SIL Vai Fonts package and must be downloaded separately.
Both Macintosh and Windows users will need the Free Adobe Acrobat Reader to read and print the documentation.
Related Packages
Keyman
Keyman is a keyboard management utility that makes it practical to input many different languages in almost any Windows application. Keyman allows you to have arbitrarily long input sequences and to have diacritics typed after the base character.
Some tools and resources for character input
Links to useful tools for character input.
Other Resources
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