Sources and Information for Multi-Lingual CJK Fonts

Introduction
In the process of converting the Word document for the CEAL directory to html, I have discovered just how important multilingual fonts are.  Word's sophisticated "font linking" technology allows display of characters in various Unicode fonts without multilingual fonts.  But when a Word file is converted to HTML and displayed on the web or in FrontPage, the various fonts in a multilingual document  often do not display properly.  

The way to avoid this problem (I have now learned, thanks to Karl Lo's suggestion on Eastlib recently) is by using a multilingual font (such as Arial Unicode MS) in the Word document before converting it to HTML.   Browsers equipped to view Arial Unicode MS or some other multilingual font can then display various kinds of CJK in the HTML document. 

The above assumes that the appropriate multilingual fonts are installed on the browsers of those wishing to view the document, and that their browsers are configured to use a multilingual font in displaying documents.

The list of links below was created partly for my own use, and partly In response to email I have received about various problems CEAL members have had problems viewing the CJK fonts in the text version of the CEAL Directory.   I was pleased to find much of the information I needed in one site:  Alan Wood's "Unicode and Multilingual Support in Web Browsers and HTML."    I have linked to many pages on Wood's site and some others to try to simplify the process of enabling your computer to view multilingual CJK documents.

--Rob Britt
October 4, 2000