Fonts Display

Sutta Spectra! is a multilingual website. It contains text in various Asian and Roman scripts. To view these text properly, you will need at least a web browser which support Unicode. We also use non-Unicode fonts to display certain scripts not yet common in Unicode fonts. More information is provided in the next two sections.

Unicode Support Requirement

You require a web browser which support Unicode to view the minimum set of scripts, as listed:

1. Pali in Roman script Pāḷi
2. Chinese (Simplified) 中文简体
3. Chinese (Traditional) 中文繁體
4. Japanese 日本語
5. Korean 한국어
6. Thai ภาษาไทย
7. Vietnamese tiếng Việt

You also need a Unicode font which include all the above scripts.

Non-Unicode Fonts

A setback for us is that most of the freely available Unicode fonts do not contain some of the scripts we are using. A more convenient way is for us to use non-Unicode fonts. The disadvantage is that these fonts are only available for Windows systems. If you are using a non-Windows system, you will not be able to view some of the texts properly.

1. Burmese: If you have CSCD installed on your system, you already has the font we are using. If not, simply click here to download the VRI Myanmar CB font [32KB].
2. Sinhala: To view Sinhala text, you will need to install the Tipitaka_Sinhala1 font from Metta Network.

External Links

• Unicode Web Browsers
• Unicode Fonts