Anyone know where I can find Khmer, Malayalam, and other foreign fonts (and IPA characters)?

Asked by DominicX (28813

) December 4th, 2009

It kinda bugs me that Macs are so unequipped with foreign fonts. I know most people don’t give a rat’s ass about foreign fonts and foreign characters, but I do and it pisses me off that Windows comes pre-equipped with all kinds of foreign fonts and Mac is severely lacking. I can’t seem to find any Khmer or Malayalam fonts online that will work. Does anyone know where I can find these fonts so I can display Khmer and Malayalam text on my computer?

Additionally, does anyone know where I can get IPA characters? I need them for linguistics and I would like to embed them in Microsoft Word documents.

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That’s weird about the lack of Unicode in Office for Mac; I didn’t realize that it isn’t really there. They offer Arial and Lucida Unicode under the Windows compatible collections. IPA is Unicode. That site has an IPA keyboard where you can copy and paste characters. ɮɬðθβɸʂɣɲʔ

ADDITION: You can access Unicode in Text Edit. Open Applications, select Text Edit, then on the tool bar, select Edit>Special Characters. I wonder if for the other fonts you have to go in under System Preferences>International.

PandoraBoxx (18031

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Is this or this any use?

the100thmonkey (11277

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You should have IPA characters already. Look in the Character Viewer.

As for Malayalam and Khmer, search this blog: http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/

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@morphail

Wow, you have to buy a $50 product to get Khmer to display…come on, Apple, you want more widespread use, you’re going to have to allow some more foreign fonts…

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@DominicX I agree… there are free fonts for just most other south and southeast Asian scripts, but not Khmer.

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