Extended characters in fonts other than arial

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Alex

I work for a company which receives files which have been created in
Microsoft Word for PC but contain various languages (often involving
cyrilic characters). The font "Arial" within Windows offers support
for these characters (which has a ttf extention suggesting that it is
a truetype font, however, windows recognises it as a opentype font),
however, when the font is changed, many characters are lost. Is there
any way of getting this extended functionality with fonts other than
Arial?
 
I work for a company which receives files which have been created in
Microsoft Word for PC but contain various languages (often involving
cyrilic characters). The font "Arial" within Windows offers support
for these characters (which has a ttf extention suggesting that it is
a truetype font, however, windows recognises it as a opentype font),
however, when the font is changed, many characters are lost. Is there
any way of getting this extended functionality with fonts other than
Arial?
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MS Word, starting from version 97, is a Unicode application, so
any Unicode font that contains Cyrillic subset is Ok - some of
such Unicode fonts have been already listed in the previous answer,
plus usually "Verdana" and others.

To see whether a specific Unicode font suplied with MS Windows
contains Cyrillic subset:

1) Install free MS utility:
http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/property/property.htm

2) Using Windows Explorer, navigate to Fonts folder
(under your main Windows folder called WinNT), place
cursor onto a font file and using right mouse button, choose
"Properties"

3) There, look at Unicode/Charset tab - it lists all supported
subsets

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Regards,
Paul Gorodyansky
"Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet":
http://RusWin.net
Russian On-screen Keyboard: http://Kbd.RusWin.net
 
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