The font comes pre-installed with all Microsoft Windows versions since Windows 98. It was designed by Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow in 1993, and was first shipped with the Microsoft Windows NT 3.1 operating system. It is the first Unicode encoded font to include non-Latin scripts (Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew). It is a sans-serif variant of the Lucida font family and supports Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew scripts, as well as all the letters used in the International Phonetic Alphabet. The Unicode fonts Arial, Arial Unicode MS, Bitstream Cyberbit, Charis SIL, Chrysanthi Unicode, ClearlyU, code2000, DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Serif, Doulos SIL, Everson Mono, FreeSerif, FreeSans, Unifont, Junicode, Linux Libertine, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Microsoft Sans Serif, Noto Sans, Noto Serif, Quivira, Tahoma, Times New Roman and Segoe UI are used to display rarer characters correctly.In digital typography, Lucida Sans Unicode OpenType font from the design studio of Bigelow & Holmes is designed to support the most commonly used characters defined in version 1.0 of the Unicode standard.A flaw in Lucida Sans Unicode is in the combining double low line character ( U + 0333 ), which are rendered as a blank or as a simple tiny underline when font-size is less than 238 point or so in word processors, whereas combining double low line is rendered a simple low line in web browsers, no matter which font is used.You'll need some nice Unicode fonts, like Junicode, but newer versions of Windows come with " Lucida Sans Unicode " anyway.The first Unicode fonts ( with very large character set, and supporting many Unicode blocks ) were Lucida Sans Unicode ( released March 1993 ), Unihan font ( 1993 ), and Everson Mono ( 1995 ).:: : : Just make sure you are using a decent Unicode font, such as Arial Unicode MS or Lucida Sans Unicode.( I'm a little confused, because at this site, chess symbols are blank with either Lucida Sans Unicode or Arial too. I cleared my cache a couple ways just in case.Firefox should map unicode to XP's defaul unicode font, which is Lucida Sans Unicode, in case the character is not present in the default browser font ( usually Arial ).For demonstration purposes, a Unicode typeface called " Lucida Sans Unicode " is shipped with Windows NT 3.1 even though it is not installed by default.I have Lucida Sans Unicode installed, MS Arial Unicode installed, and the " web page font " in Internet Options set to the MS Arial unicode font.It's difficult to see lucida sans unicode in a sentence.I'm trying to fix the problem of IPA text being rendered in a barely legible font by changing the font to Lucida Sans Unicode.Check if Lucida Sans Unicode is present on your system.:: Actually, it now seems that Lucida Sans Unicode " is " part of the problem, after all.However, Lucida Sans Unicode just drops some signs in my Internet Explorer ( not in Microsoft Word, though ).The fonts Lucida Sans Unicode and either Microsoft Sans Serif or Tahoma should cover most of this range.Select font " Arial Unicode MS ", " Lucida Sans Unicode " or some other Unicode font.
When I change to either Lucida Sans Unicode or Arial, the icons are still blank.It was using Lucida Sans Unicode instead of Arial.The typeface looks very similar to Lucida Sans and Lucida Sans Unicode.