Medieval Unicode Font Initiative

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The Medieval Unicode Font Initiative ( MUFI ) is an international project of palaeographers , which endeavors to encode special Latin characters in the Unicode standard and the ISO standard 10646 .

In medieval manuscripts there are numerous abbreviations, diacritical marks and punctuation marks that are no longer in use today. Usually these characters are simply reproduced in transcriptions in modern notation. For scientific purposes, extended abbreviations are often indicated in italics . The different punctuation is generally not taken into account here.

For special purposes such as B. linguistic studies, it is desirable to digitally record and display the texts in their original spelling. Some letter forms that differ from modern spelling are also essential for this. A first Unicode coding proposal (see web links) for around 100 characters was largely accepted by the Unicode Technical Committee in February 2006.

In order to be able to use the medieval characters required by the MUFI project even before their inclusion in the Unicode standard, they are temporarily encoded in the so-called private use area of some fonts .

MUFI fonts

Different fonts contain all or some of the MUFI characters:

The Junicode font contains a few different encodings, as it was created before the MUFI project and the MUFI encoding should be compatible with the older Titus Cyberbit font.

See also

Web links