Medieval Unicode Font Initiative


Disclaimer: This site is managed by scholars in Medieval studies with the aim of establishing a consensus on the use of Unicode among medievalists. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Unicode.


Archive of earlier proposals, minutes and papers

Alec McAllister (Leeds, UK):
Some thoughts on making medieval Unicode fonts
(14 July 2003) - PDF file

Juan-José Marcos García (Plasencia, Spain):
Proposal for coordinated usage of the Private Use Area v. 1.0
(14 July 2003) - PDF file

David J. Perry (Rye, New York, US):
Response to Two Papers Concerning Scholarly Font Development
(28 July 2003) - PDF file

Juan-José Marcos García (Plasencia, Spain):
Proposal for coordinated usage of the Private Use Area v. 3.0
(10 August 2003) - PDF file

Juan-José Marcos García (Plasencia, Spain):
Supplementary Multilingual Planes in Unicode
(11 August 2003) - PDF file

David J. Perry (Rye, New York, US):
Adding Supplementary Plane Characters to a Font
(31 August 2003) - PDF file

Minutes from MUFI group meeting
MUFI group meeting, Bergen 30-31 August 2003

MUFI proposal for coordinated usage of the Private Use Area
Version 0.9.1 (8 September 2001)

MUFI proposal for character repertoire:
Version 0.9 (12 September 2003)
Version 1.0 beta (30 September 2003)

MUFI proposal for coordinated usage of the Private Use Area
Version 0.9.2 (15 September 2001)
Version 1.0 beta no. 1 (30 September 2003)
Version 1.0 beta no. 2 (14 October 2003)
Version 1.0 beta no. 3 (16 October 2003)
Version 1.0 beta no. 4 (20 October 2003)
Version 1.0 beta no. 5 (26 October 2003)
MUFI character recommendation v. 1.0 PDF beta (10 November 2003)

 

 

MUFI site

Start page

 


Links

Eesti Keele Instituut
The Institute of the Estonian language, Tallinn, provides an on-line database listing characters used in specific languages, e.g.: "What characters are needed for writing Icelandic?" "What characters are needed to transliterate Arabic?" Can also be used to search to see whether specific characters are in Unicode, e.g. "U with macron".

Non-European computing
An excellent essay by Knut S. Vikør, University of Bergen, about codepages and the technical problems of handling foreign languages. Mainly intended for Arabic and other "difficult" languages, but a first-class summary; many of the same concepts are relevant to Medieval and other languages.

Unicode in the Czyborra Republic
Roman Czyborra's home page. Lots of useful information about codepages ... with graphics of the characters, so they can be understood even if your computer does not have suitable fonts installed.


Created 21 December 2003 by OEH. Last update 21 December 2003.