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class="anchorpoint"><a href="/tools/wiki/home.html">THL Toolbox</a> > <a href="/tools/wiki/Fonts%20%26%20Related%20Issues.html">Fonts & Related Issues</a> > Diacritic Fonts</a></h3><p class="paragraph"> </p><h3 class="heading-h1"><a name="DiacriticFonts" class="anchorpoint">Diacritic Fonts</a></h3><p class="paragraph"><strong class="bold">Contributor(s):</strong> David Germano, Nathaniel Grove.</p><p class="paragraph"><strong class="bold">Quicklinks to Recommended Resources:</strong> </p><ul class="star"><li>Times New Roman diacritic font. There are sites online to download this but we do not know about their authenticity or safety. <strong class="bold">Note:</strong> if you download this font, uninstall your current version of Times New Roman before you install the current version you downloaded.</li> <li><a href="http://www.bcca.org/services/fonts/" target="rwikiexternal">Download Times Extended Roman diacritic font </a></span>: use this only if Times New Roman does not work for some reason.</li> <li><a href="https://collab.its.virginia.edu/access/content/group/c06fa8cf-c49c-4ebc-007f-482de5382105/THDL%20Technologies/Diacritic%20Input/THLDiacriticMacro-OO-v1.0.zip">Download Diacritic-Entry Macros for Open Office</a></span> (<a href="/tools/wiki/Diacritic%20Entry%20Macros%20for%20Word%20and%20OpenOffice.html">Documentation</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://collab.its.virginia.edu/access/content/group/c06fa8cf-c49c-4ebc-007f-482de5382105/THDL%20Technologies/Diacritic%20Input/THLDiacriticMacro-Word-v1.0.zip">Download Diacritic-Entry Macros for Word</a></span> (<a href="/tools/wiki/Diacritic%20Entry%20Macros%20for%20Word%20and%20OpenOffice.html">Documentation</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://collab.its.virginia.edu/access/content/group/c06fa8cf-c49c-4ebc-007f-482de5382105/THDL%20Technologies/Diacritic%20Input/tibkbd.zip">Download Windows System Diacritics Keyboard </a></span></li> <li><a href="https://collab.its.virginia.edu/access/content/group/26a34146-33a6-48ce-001e-f16ce7908a6a/Tibetan%20Input%20Tools/Wylieword%20resources/WylieWord21_Setup.exe">Download Old Wylie Word for Windows Microsoft Word Input</a></span></li></ul><p class="paragraph"><strong class="bold">Full index:</strong> </p><ul class="star"><li><a href="/tools/wiki/Breakdown%20of%20Diacritic%20Support%20by%20Operating%20System.html">Breakdown of Diacritic Support by Operating System</a></li> <li><a href="/tools/thl-diacritic-chart.php">Chart of Diacritics Used</a></span></li> <li><a href="/tools/wiki/Configuring%20Your%20Browser%20to%20Use%20Diacritic%20Fonts.html">Configuring Your Browser to Use Diacritic Fonts</a></li> <li><a href="/tools/wiki/Diacritic%20Input%20Tools.html">Diacritic Input Tools</a></li> <li><a href="/tools/wiki/Unicode%20Diacritic%20Fonts.html">Unicode Diacritic Fonts</a></li></ul><p class="paragraph"> </p><h3 class="heading-h2"><a name="AboutDiacriticFontsinAsianStudies" class="anchorpoint">About Diacritic Fonts in Asian Studies</a></h3><p class="paragraph"> Special diacritic marks are necessary for using transliteration in Roman script to refer to terms in various Asian languages, such as Sanskrit, Japanese and so forth. The use of proprietary fonts for such diacritic marks is not optimal, since there are several of these fonts and no easy way to convert from one to another. The obvious solution to this problem is the use of Unicode fonts, which utilize a world wide standard for the encoding of these diacritic marks, such that all Unicode fonts are completely interchangeable. While such Unicode fonts are available, the problem has been lack of support in operating systems and applications, as well as the lack of keyboards covering all necessary diacritic symbols. THL has created with the Institute of Advanced Technology in the Humanities a Visual Basic program to input these Unicode diacritic characters in an easy to use fashion within Microsoft Word 2000 for Windows. We plan to later release a version for the Macintosh OS X. We are releasing them under the THL Open Community License. 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