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Unicode and International Font Support in Word 2003

Word 2003 supports Unicode, a standard character set that includes all commonly used characters in virtually all the world's major languages, including Asian languages. This makes it much easier to create documents that are entirely, or partially, in languages other than English.

Word 2003 comes with one universal Unicode font, Arial Unicode MS (Arialuni.ttf), which covers all languages that Unicode supports.

NOTE

One disadvantage of standardizing on a true Unicode font such as Arial Unicode MS is its enormous size: several megabytes, compared with 100?200KB for most other TrueType fonts. Working with fonts this large can cause reduced performance, especially on slower systems with less memory.

Using Unicode fonts in your Word 2003 documents will also result in larger file sizes.


Word 2003's universal Unicode font enables you to use the same font to display documents in many languages, rather than reformat text in a specific language font. This means that you won't find yourself inadvertentlytransforming foreign-language text into gibberish when you change fonts.



    		Part I: Word Basics: Get Productive Fast
    		Part II: Building Slicker Documents Faster
    		Part III: The Visual Word: Making Documents Look Great
    		Part IV: Industrial-Strength Document Production Techniques
    		Part V: Word, the Internet, and XML
    		Part VI: The Corporate Word
    		Chapter 26. Managing Document Collaboration and Revisions
    		Chapter 27. Online Document Collaboration Using SharePoint Team Services
    		Chapter 28. Creating Forms
    		Chapter 29. Leveraging Microsoft Office 2003's Power from Word
    		Chapter 30. Using Word as an Email Editor
    		Chapter 31. Customizing Word
    		Chapter 32. Recording and Running Visual Basic Macros
    		Chapter 33. Word Document Privacy and Security Options
    		Chapter 34. Managing Word More Effectively
    		Chapter 35. Using Word's Multilingual and Accessibility Features
    		An Overview of Language Support in Word, Office, and Windows
    		Setting Up Windows for International Environments
    		Word and Office Multilingual Features
    		Entering Asian Text with Input Method Editors
    		Changing Proofing Languages During a Spell Check
    		Microsoft Office Multilingual User Interface Pack
    		Changing Language Settings After You've Installed the Office 2003 MUI Pack
    		Using Foreign Dates and Times in Your Documents
    		Language File Organization in Microsoft Office
    		Unicode and International Font Support in Word 2003
    		Troubleshooting
    		Appendix A. What's on Que's WOPR CD