Hi, I remember, the front page of the code charts by Unicode has following note:
<quote> Fonts The shapes of the reference glyphs used in these code charts are not prescriptive. Considerable variation is to be expected in actual fonts. The particular fonts used in these charts were provided to the Unicode Consortium by a number of different font designers, who own the rights to the fonts. See http://www.unicode.org/charts/fonts.html for a list. </quote> -- I have a question; if some people try to make a translated version of Unicode, they should contact all font contributors and ask for the license? Unicode Consortium cannot give any sublicense? If I understand correctly, ISO/IEC JTC1 hold the copyright of the materials used in the published documents of JTC1 standard, because they have to permit the production of the translated version of their standards, the reuse of the content of a spec by another spec, etc. Thus, I guess, it would not be so irrelevant to ask the permission to JTC1, about the fonts used in ISO/IEC 10646 - although it does not mean that JTC1 would permit anything. If I'm misunderstanding, please correct me. Regards, mpsuzuki On 3/5/2018 4:49 AM, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote:
On 3/4/2018 9:12 AM, Markus Scherer via Unicode wrote: On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 6:10 AM, Helena Miton via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org<mailto:unicode@unicode.org>> wrote: Greetings. Is there a way to know which font and font size have been used in the Unicode charts (for various writing systems)? Many thanks! What are you trying to do? Many of the fonts are unique to the Unicode chart production, and are not licensed for other uses. Some are not even generally usable. markus The editors of the Unicode charts will use any font resource that gets the job done (that is, results in a chart that correctly displays the characters in the standard). These fonts are often not production fonts, and may lack any of the many tables needed to actually display running text. They may also, as has been mentioned, be licensed solely for the purpose of publishing the standard. In some cases, they are custom built. For most scripts, the font size is nominally set to 22pt in the main code charts, but the tool that the editors use allow a different size to be selected for any range of code points, or individual characters. There are some examples where a character is very wide or tall where it had to be scaled down individually to fit the cell. The purpose of the code charts is *exclusively* that of helping users of the standard identify which character is encoded at what code position. They are not intended as a font resource or normative description of the glyphs. Any usage scenario that is outside the very narrow scope is unsupported and reverse engineering / extracting font resources is explicitly in violation of the terms of use. A./
