Unicode and International Font Support in Word 2003
Word 2003 supports Unicode, a standard character set that includes all commonly used characters in virtually all the world's major languages, including Asian languages. This makes it much easier to create documents that are entirely, or partially, in languages other than English.
Word 2003 comes with one universal Unicode font, Arial Unicode MS (Arialuni.ttf), which covers all languages that Unicode supports.
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One disadvantage of standardizing on a true Unicode font such as Arial Unicode MS is its enormous size: several megabytes, compared with 100–200KB for most other TrueType fonts. Working with fonts this large can cause reduced performance, especially on slower systems with less memory. ...
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