Unicode 5.1 Released
New Slavic Fonts Available For Download

Dear Fellow Slavists,

At the beginning of April, Unicode version 5.1 has been officially released.

This version offers dozens of additional Cyrillic characters - historical characters as well as ones for non-Slavic languages. UC 5.1 also adds many additional Latin characters especially for medievalists etc.

If you want to take a look at all the new Cyrillic additions, please click here.

I am please to announce the release of v. 3 of my RomanCyrillic Std font which can be downloaded - as before - from the following page.

This new version supports Unicode 5.1 in all relevant areas (Latin, Phonetics, Cyrillic, Diacritics, Punctuation, Editorial Marks etc.) and adds more than 1.000 new characters for a total of now more than 3.500 characters.

This is also the first version of the font to make extensive use of OpenType Features. If your application supports such features (like Adobe InDesign and many more - in the future) you will have access to a hundred altenate character shapes - historical Cyrillic characters, to precomposed accented letters, Slavic numbers, ligatures etc., all without using the Private Use Area of Unicode.

The companion font, Kliment Std, will be available soon, too, in a UC 5.1 compliant version.

Please feel free to forward my post to other suitable lists and/or colleagues who might be interested.

Sebastian Kempgen