I am curious; how many here are familiar with Unicode?
It is really a great advancement in computer font encoding. For example, in the old legacy font system, a font could only hold a maximum of 220 glyphs. So, if you wanted a font to have fully accented Greek, that would take up most of the 220 glyph spots. If you wanted Chinese, forget about it.
If I wrote a document in accented Greek in one font, say, SIL Galatia font, and you got the document and did not have that font, you could not read the text.
But now, with unicode, one font can hold 50,000 glyphs, including all the Greek, Hebrew, Russian, Latin, phonetics and more, in one font.
And the nice thing about it is, if I write a Word document in Greek with a Unicode font, like Gentium, and you get the word document, even if you don't have Gentium font, you can change that Greek text to any other Unicode font that has the Greek glyphs, (of which there are dozens of font) and you can still read it. For example, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Microsoft Office 2003 all come with Palatino Linotype font, which will display the Greek font nicely. There are many other good free Unicode fonts that display all the Greek and Hebrew you would ever need, such as Cardo98 font.
