English: Examples of Microsoft's SimSun font, displaying its inclusion of Unicode's CJK (Chinese-Japanese-Korean) Unified Ideograph system, as well as Latin-alphabet support. The correct format for displaying the font name in a vertical string of ideograms is also included. Not shown despite being included in the font are Japanese hiragana and katakana (as the font name would more likely be rendered in Romaji i.e. Latin characters), and fullwidth Latin characters as would be used for proper alignment of Western letterforms in vertical columns of mostly-ideographic text. An example of fullwidth Latin characters aligned vertically was not included in order to maintain legible characters as well as a small file size. (Korean hangul characters are not included in SimSun.)
For easy access to Chinese (or Japanese or Korean) alphabets, as well as to special characters including diacritical marks as used for other languages such as Tamil, Tibetan, Urdu or Vietnamese, Windows users can use the Character Map utility. In Windows XP this is typically accessed via Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map. (The exact navigation path may vary in other versions of Windows.)
Within the Character Map utility window, users can select any font installed on that computer, select whichever character(s) are needed, then copy-and-paste into a graphics or word-processing program, browser, or other application. This is also useful for inputting Arabic, Belgian, Cherokee, Cyrillic, Danish, Ethiopic, Farsi, Greek, Hebrew, IPA and many other languages / writing systems.
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