Vikør's site has a wealth of information about Unicode, transliteration and related topics.

The MEDOCfont is a modification of Jaghbub, which is Knut Vikør's legal modification of Times.

Most new fonts are in the OpenType format, which works in all current operating systems and most up-to-date software. To use Unicode, you will need to install (or find already installed) Unicode fonts on your computer. Chances are someone else has had the same questions and there are probably answers out there that will help determine what to do. Rather than attempt to cover every operating system and software version here, we suggest using a search engine to find what a given operating system or software can and cannot handle. In general, the older the operating system or software, the less it will support Unicode.

There are several methods for entering Unicode in a document, some more complex than others. Even in software that supports Unicode, the degree of compliance can vary from one version to the next. Users of recent versions of Windows or Apple operating systems can use Unicode without a great deal of trouble, though not all software supports it equally (if at all). (Click here for an indication of the scripts currently included, and here for those not yet included in the Unicode standard.) Not all fonts are Unicode fonts, and not all Unicode fonts have all possible characters. This causes problems when a user changes or does not have a document's font and an incorrect glyph (or nothing at all) appears in the place of a specific character or symbol. In older font technologies, each font might designate glyphs with codes that meant something else (or nothing at all) in another font. Thus, no matter what Unicode font is being used, software will always use precisely the symbol being called for (assuming that the font has that glyph). Put simply, Unicode is a method of programming fonts that assigns a unique code to every symbol in every writing system. What is Unicode? The explanation at is a good place to begin.

While we have tested most of what follows, and we have no reason to think that any of it will cause problems, we assume no responsibility for any negative effects that might be caused to any software or hardware by downloading, installing or using any of it. The fonts and keyboard layouts listed below will help to solve these issues.

Even when a font does have everything needed, it is not always easy to enter the more obscure characters or to figure out how to get a dot under a T or Z. Unfortunately, not all fonts have all the required characters. Authors of Mamlūk Studies Review articles are asked to use Unicode fonts and proper diacritics.

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