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+README
+Gentium Release 1.03
+24 June 2011
+====================
+
+Thank you for your interest in the Gentium fonts.
+We hope you find them useful!
+
+Gentium ("belonging to the nations" in Latin) is a Unicode typeface family
+designed to enable the many diverse ethnic groups around the world who use
+the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications. It supports
+a wide range of Latin-based alphabets and includes glyphs that correspond to
+all the Latin ranges of Unicode.
+
+The design is intended to be highly readable, reasonably compact, and
+visually attractive. The additional 'extended' Latin letters are designed to
+naturally harmonize with the traditional 26 ones. Diacritics are treated
+with careful thought and attention to their use. Gentium also supports both
+ancient and modern Greek, including a number of alternate forms. It has won
+a "Certificate of Excellence in Typeface Design" in two major international
+typeface design competitions: bukva:raz! (2001) and TDC2003 (2003).
+
+Gentium provides glyphs for a wide range of Latin and Greek characters.
+It currently supports the following ranges of Unicode 3.0 (completely unless
+noted):
+
+Range Description
+---------------------------
+U+0020-U+007F Basic Latin
+U+00A0-U+00FF Latin-1 Supplement
+U+0100-U+017F Latin Extended-A
+U+0180-U+021F Latin Extended-B
+U+0222-U+0233 Latin Extended-B (continued)
+U+0250-U+02AD IPA Extensions
+U+02B0-U+02FF Spacing Modifier Letters
+U+0300-U+036F Combining Diacritical Marks
+U+0370-U+03D5 Greek (not including archaic or Coptic)
+U+1E00-U+1EFF Latin Extended Additional
+U+1F00-U+1FFF Greek Extended
+U+2000-U+203A General Punctuation (partial)
+U+2070-U+209F Superscripts and Subscripts
+U+20A0-U+20CF Currency Symbols (partial)
+U+2100-U+214F Letterlike Symbols (only a couple)
+
+Gentium Regular also includes some Cyrillic glyphs, but they are only early
+drafts. A future version will include a completely revised set, and will
+expand the support for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic to cover Unicode 4.1. It
+will also include support for OpenType and Graphite smart font
+technologies.
+
+Gentium is released under the SIL Open Font License.
+Gentium is a trademark of SIL International.
+
+See the OFL and OFL-FAQ for details of the SIL Open Font License.
+See the FONTLOG for information on this and previous releases.
+See the QUOTES file to read the feedback received from Gentium users.
+See the GENTIUM-FAQ file for frequently asked questions and their answers
+ (such as why there are two families of fonts included).
+
+
+TIPS
+====
+
+We cannot afford to offer technical support at no cost. The font has, however,
+been through some testing on various platforms to be sure it works in most
+situations. In particular, it has been tested and shown to work on Windows
+2000, Windows XP and Ubuntu.
+
+If you do find a problem, please do report it to <gentium AT sil DOT org>.
+We can't guarantee any direct response, but will try to fix reported bugs in
+future versions. Make sure you read through the Gentium FAQ.
+
+Many problems can be solved, or at least explained, through an understanding
+of the encoding and use of the fonts. Here are some basic hints:
+
+Encoding:
+The fonts are encoded according to Unicode, so your application must support
+Unicode text in order to access letters other than the standard alphabet.
+Most Windows applications provide basic Unicode support. You will, however,
+need some way of entering Unicode text into your document.
+
+Keyboarding:
+Gentium does not include any keyboarding helps or utilities. It uses the
+built-in keyboards of the operating system. You will need to install the
+appropriate keyboard and input method for the characters of the language you
+wish to use. If you want to enter characters that are not supported by any
+system keyboard, depending on your platform Keyman (www.tavultesoft.com), KMFL
+(kmfl.sf.net), XKB (http://www.x.org/wiki/XKB) or Ukelele
+(scripts.sil.org/ukelele) can be helpful.
+
+Another method of entering some symbols is provided by a few applications
+as Adobe InDesign, LibreOffice or gucharmap. They can display a glyph palette
+that shows all the glyphs (symbols) in a font and allow you to enter them by
+clicking on the glyph you want.
+
+Rendering:
+Gentium also currently lacks any special font programming that can
+substitute one glyph for another or position glyphs in a 'smart' way, such
+as in OpenType, Apple Advanced Typography or SIL's Graphite. For example,
+although Gentium includes an 'ffl' ligature, there are no special routines
+in the font that will automatically substitute 'f'+'f'+'l' with 'ffl', but
+an individual application might provide that feature.
+
+
+INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION
+==============================
+
+For installation tips - including using packages (installers) - please refer
+to the documentation on http://scripts.sil.org/DecompressUtil
+
+CONTACT
+========
+For more information please visit the Gentium page on SIL International's
+Computers and Writing systems website:
+http://scripts.sil.org/gentium
+
+Or send an email to <gentium AT sil DOT org>
+