Microsoft's New "Segoe UI" Font

suchandra · 02-03-2008, 02:35 PM

Microsoft's New "Segoe UI" Font

Dear Maharajas and Prabhus, please accept my humble obeisances. All
glories to Srila Prabhupada!

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segoe_UI , this new font
comes with Microsoft Vista and MS Word 2007. It's the first "off the
shelf" font that I've seen that displays all of the 31 standard ISKCON
diacritic characters correctly, including "LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH
CHANDRABINDU."

Maybe you have it on your computer. One easy way to tell is to simply
go to http://llbest.com/ListAvailableFonts.htm , but that particular
web page only works with IE6 or later.

Unless you know for sure that you don't have it installed, please try
the following:

1. Go to http://pratyatosa.com/SanskritDiacriticTextConversion.htm .

2. Select "3. Segoe UI."

3. Click "Sample text."

4. If you don't have Segoe UI installed, then you will see a bunch of
graphics characters, in which case there's no use going any further.

5. Click "Compress."

6. Click "Zoom in" twice.

7.You should see that all 31 standard ISKCON diacritic characters are
displayed correctly using IE, and 30 out of 31 using Firefox.

8. Click "Bold."

9. Click "Italic."

10. Click "Bold" again.

11. If you are using IE, you will see that the last character in the
list ("LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH CHANDRABINDU") is always displayed
perfectly!

Your servant, Pratyatosa Dasa

indulekhadasi · 03-07-2008, 12:09 AM

Thanks I will try to install the font..it sounds great!

JustRish · 03-16-2008, 07:16 AM

Thank you, thank you, thank you

Sunds · 03-16-2008, 07:22 AM

My Computer will not install them !!!