on making a Unicode fonts incruding "Cyrillic Extended" characters for digitization of old Russian literature

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370390
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: European literature
• Research Institution: Kobe Shinwa Women's University
• Principal Investigator: SAKAI Jun 神戸親和女子大学, 文学部, 准教授 (20390049)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 初期キリル文字 / フォント / ウェブフォント / Unicode Version 8.0 / 基本キリル文字 / 補助キリル文字 / 拡張キリル文字A / 拡張キリル文字B

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, all completed the creation of two fonts, including the Early Cyrillic alphabet characters in the last fiscal year. As for the software license and including characters of GNU Free Font created by other developers, it was confirmed that matches the purpose of this study. By these, the purpose of this study, to create a free licenses web fonts that contains all Cyrillic characters used in the Old Russian, is considered to have achieved.
These fonts were to be able to use the concordances that we created in Unicode. And character code of eight Chronicles was converted to Unicode, it has been published on the web in conjunction with the fonts created.

Free Research Field

コンピューター言語学