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<title>Charis - Resources</title>
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<h1 class="title">Charis - Resources</h1>
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<h2 id="requirements">Requirements</h2>
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<p>These fonts are supported by all major operating systems (macOS,
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Windows, Linux-based, iOS, and Android). However, the extent of that
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support depends on the individual OS and application.</p>
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<h2 id="installation">Installation</h2>
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<p>Install the fonts by decompressing the .zip archive and
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installing the fonts using the standard font installation process
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for .ttf (TrueType/OpenType) fonts for your platform. For additional
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tips see the help page on <a
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href="https://software.sil.org/fonts/installation">Font
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installation</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="keyboarding-and-character-set-support">Keyboarding and
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character set support</h2>
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<p>These fonts do not include keyboards or other software for
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entering text. To type the symbols in these fonts use the
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keyboarding systems provided in your OS or use a separate utility.
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SIL’s <a href="https://keyman.com/">Keyman</a> provides keyboards
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for over 2000 languages and works on all major desktop and mobile
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platforms. For information on other keyboarding options see the
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overview at <a
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href="https://scriptsource.org/entry/ytr8g8n6sw">Keyboard Systems
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Overview (ScriptSource)</a>.</p>
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<p>See <a href="charset.html">Character set support</a> for details
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of the Unicode characters supported by these fonts.</p>
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<h2 id="rendering-and-application-support">Rendering and application
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support</h2>
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<p>These fonts will work normally like any other fonts in most
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applications. If the writing system requires special diacritic
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positioning the application/OS will need to support OpenType.</p>
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<p>These fonts also include extensive OpenType features for small
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caps, literacy forms, character alernates and language-specific
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preferences. For information on the specific features available in
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these fonts see <a href="features.html">Font features</a>.</p>
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<p>If special font features are to be activated, the application
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will need to provide a way to turn on the feature or choose the
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feature setting. Details of current application support, and
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specific techniques for activating features, are on the <a
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href="https://software.sil.org/fonts/features">Using Font
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Features</a> help page.</p>
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<p>Although the current fonts support only OpenType, previous
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versions provided support for Graphite and AAT (Apple Advanced
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Typography) technologies. Graphite was supported through version 5
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and AAT was supported up to version 4. These older versions remain
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available from our <a
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href="https://software.sil.org/charis/download/previous-versions">Previous
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Versions archive</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="typetuner">TypeTuner</h2>
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<p>The <a
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href="https://typetunerweb.languagetechnology.org/ttw/fonts2go.cgi">TypeTuner
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Web</a> service allows you to choose smart font features and
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download a font with those features preset. This enables them to
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work in many applications that do not fully support OpenType.</p>
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<h2 id="web-fonts">Web fonts</h2>
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<p>Web font versions of these fonts (in WOFF and WOFF2 formats) are
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available in the <code>web</code> folder. These can be copied to a
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web server and used as fonts on web pages. A very basic HTML/CSS
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demo page is also included. For more information on the options and
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techniques available for using these fonts on web pages see <a
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href="https://software.sil.org/fonts/webfonts">Using SIL Fonts on
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Web Pages</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="text-conversion">Text conversion</h2>
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<p>These fonts are encoded according to <a
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href="https://unicode.org">The Unicode Standard</a>. If you have
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text that uses a legacy, non-Unicode encoding there are tools that
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can help you convert that text for use with Unicode fonts. See <a
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href="https://scriptsource.org/entry/xlzd6n5aqt">Introduction to
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Text Conversion and Transliteration</a>.</p>
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<footer class="footer">
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<p>This guide is from the <a href="https://software.sil.org/charis/" title="" class="active">Charis project</a> version 7 and is copyright © 1997-2025 SIL Global.</p>
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