Arial Unicode font for Tamil, etc.?

Looking for some style alternatives to the InaiMathi font included in OS X for the Tamil language, I noted at the the Gallery of Unicode Fonts that the Arial Unicode font includes Tamil characters, and remembered that that font is now included with OS X (10.5). I checked with Character Palette and indeed the Tamil characters are there, but they aren't recognized as equivalent to those in InaiMathi. And when I try to change some Tamil words in a document from InaiMathi to Arial Unicode, nothing happens.
I don't understand a lot about Unicode, but I know the Arial Unicode font has been around for a while (it was more or less the original effort to create a single Unicode font including all the major alphabetic scripts), and don't understand why it would contain the Tamil character set but not work for that script. It doesn't seem to work for Tibetan either, though it contains that character set as well. In fact, according to Character Palette, it seems about 90% of Arial Unicode is "character variants" that "won't display correctly". What's it for, then, anyone have any idea?

+I have always thought Windows fonts cannot be used for display. Could you describe how you use Character Palette to do that?+
Well, not "display" in the sense of opening a file using an OpenType font on the Mac and seeing it display properly. What I do in Character Palette with an OpenType font like Sanskrit2003 is scroll through the font to find the elements I want and double-click them to enter them in a document. Of course this workaround is feasible only for the occasional word, not for whole sentences or paragraphs. I'm not a big time user of any of this, so I can manage for the occasional word I want.
+The reason they do this is because a lot of documents and web pages could specify Arial in them and users would get the idea that OS X does not support Devanagari, Tamil, Tibetan, etc unless they switch the font, which is impossible in Safari.+
Yeah, I can see the reason; but wouldn't it be easier in the long run to just enable OpenType fonts so everyone can use the same fonts? And it is annoying that you can't specify fonts in Safari like in Camino.
+I agree, but have doubts this will happen soon. Perhaps more likely is an app like Mellel which does OpenType could be expanded to cover these scripts.+
Several years ago the developer of Mellel assured me that v.2 would support Indic scripts. But it never happened.
+In the meantime, OpenOffice/X11 does work for display I think.+
Yes, OpenType fonts can be used in OpenOffice/X11 (which is no longer being developed, BTW, now that there's a native OS X version). But not AAT fonts.
+This might interest you:+
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1577715&tstart=0
Indeed, though much of it is over my head. I just want to be able to use the same fonts for Indic languages as everyone else, just as I can in Chinese, etc.

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import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import java.io.*;
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But nothing in this code succeedings in printing \u1f77. As I've said, the plain old xterm can do it. I think my problem is that I haven't successfully referenced the desired font in the Java code. But how do I do this? These are the fonts available to me, according to the code above:
java.awt.Font[family=Bitstream Charter,name=Bitstream Charter,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Bitstream Charter,name=Bitstream Charter Bold,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Bitstream Charter,name=Bitstream Charter Bold Italic,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Bitstream Charter,name=Bitstream Charter Italic,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Courier,name=Courier,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Courier 10 Pitch,name=Courier 10 Pitch,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Courier 10 Pitch,name=Courier 10 Pitch Bold,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Courier 10 Pitch,name=Courier 10 Pitch Bold Italic,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Courier 10 Pitch,name=Courier 10 Pitch Italic,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Courier,name=Courier Bold,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Courier,name=Courier Bold Italic,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Courier,name=Courier Italic,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Cursor,name=Cursor,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Lucida Bright,name=Lucida Bright Demibold,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Lucida Bright,name=Lucida Bright Demibold Italic,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Lucida Bright,name=Lucida Bright Italic,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Lucida Bright,name=Lucida Bright Regular,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Lucida Sans,name=Lucida Sans Demibold,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Lucida Sans,name=Lucida Sans Demibold Oblique,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Lucida Sans,name=Lucida Sans Oblique,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Lucida Sans,name=Lucida Sans Regular,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Lucida Sans Typewriter,name=Lucida Sans Typewriter Bold,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Lucida Sans Typewriter,name=Lucida Sans Typewriter Bold Oblique,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Lucida Sans Typewriter,name=Lucida Sans Typewriter Oblique,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Lucida Sans Typewriter,name=Lucida Sans Typewriter Regular,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Luxi Mono,name=Luxi Mono Bold,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Luxi Mono,name=Luxi Mono Bold Oblique,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Luxi Mono,name=Luxi Mono Oblique,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Luxi Mono,name=Luxi Mono Regular,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Luxi Sans,name=Luxi Sans Bold,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Luxi Sans,name=Luxi Sans Bold Oblique,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Luxi Sans,name=Luxi Sans Oblique,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Luxi Sans,name=Luxi Sans Regular,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Luxi Serif,name=Luxi Serif Bold,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Luxi Serif,name=Luxi Serif Bold Oblique,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Luxi Serif,name=Luxi Serif Oblique,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Luxi Serif,name=Luxi Serif Regular,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Utopia,name=Utopia Bold,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Utopia,name=Utopia Bold Italic,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Utopia,name=Utopia Italic,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=Utopia,name=Utopia Regular,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=dialog,name=dialog,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=dialog,name=dialog.bold,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=dialog,name=dialog.bolditalic,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=dialog,name=dialog.italic,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=dialoginput,name=dialoginput,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=dialoginput,name=dialoginput.bold,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=dialoginput,name=dialoginput.bolditalic,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=dialoginput,name=dialoginput.italic,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=monospaced,name=monospaced,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=monospaced,name=monospaced.bold,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=monospaced,name=monospaced.bolditalic,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=monospaced,name=monospaced.italic,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=sansserif,name=sansserif,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=sansserif,name=sansserif.bold,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=sansserif,name=sansserif.bolditalic,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=sansserif,name=sansserif.italic,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=serif,name=serif,style=plain,size=1]
java.awt.Font[family=serif,name=serif.bold,style=plain,size=1]
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java.awt.Font[family=serif,name=serif.italic,style=plain,size=1]
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java.awt.Font[family=Dialog,name=Dialog,style=plain,size=12]
java.awt.Font[family=dialog,name=-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1,style=plain,size=12]
javax.swing.plaf.FontUIResource[family=Dialog,name=Dialog,style=plain,size=12]
javax.swing.plaf.FontUIResource[family=Dialog,name=Dialog,style=plain,size=12]
Apparently, I need to use the correct "name" to specify the font. So my next try was this:
$ xlsfonts -ll -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1
name: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1
direction: left to right
indexing: matrix
rows: 0x00 thru 0x30 (0 thru 48)
columns: 0x00 thru 0xff (0 thru 255)
all chars exist: no
default char: 0x0000 (0)
ascent: 14
descent: 4
font type: Character Cell
bounds: width left right asc desc attr keysym
min 9 0 0 -3 -13 0x0000
max 9 8 9 14 4 0x0000
properties: 23
FONTNAME_REGISTRY
FOUNDRY Misc
FAMILY_NAME Fixed
WEIGHT_NAME Medium
SLANT R
SETWIDTH_NAME Normal
ADD_STYLE_NAME
PIXEL_SIZE 18
POINT_SIZE 120
RESOLUTION_X 100
RESOLUTION_Y 100
SPACING C
AVERAGE_WIDTH 90
CHARSET_REGISTRY ISO10646
CHARSET_ENCODING 1
COPYRIGHT Public domain font. Share and enjoy.
XMBDFEDINFO 654
CAP_HEIGHT 10
X_HEIGHT 7
FONT -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1
WEIGHT 10
RESOLUTION 138
QUAD_WIDTH 9
name: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1
direction: left to right
indexing: matrix
rows: 0x00 thru 0x30 (0 thru 48)
columns: 0x00 thru 0xff (0 thru 255)
all chars exist: no
default char: 0x0000 (0)
ascent: 14
descent: 4
font type: Character Cell
bounds: width left right asc desc attr keysym
min 9 0 0 -3 -13 0x0000
max 9 8 9 14 4 0x0000
properties: 23
FONTNAME_REGISTRY
FOUNDRY Misc
FAMILY_NAME Fixed
WEIGHT_NAME Medium
SLANT R
SETWIDTH_NAME Normal
ADD_STYLE_NAME
PIXEL_SIZE 18
POINT_SIZE 120
RESOLUTION_X 100
RESOLUTION_Y 100
SPACING C
AVERAGE_WIDTH 90
CHARSET_REGISTRY ISO10646
CHARSET_ENCODING 1
COPYRIGHT Public domain font. Share and enjoy.
XMBDFEDINFO 654
CAP_HEIGHT 10
X_HEIGHT 7
FONT -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1
WEIGHT 10
RESOLUTION 138
QUAD_WIDTH 9
(Yes, xlsfonts prints two entries.)
Here is a bit more data:
[pjungwir@mccurdy unicode_gui]$ uname -a
Linux mccurdy.nfic.com 2.4.18-14 #1 Wed Sep 4 13:35:50 EDT 2002 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[pjungwir@mccurdy unicode_gui]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche)
[pjungwir@mccurdy unicode_gui]$ java -version
java version "1.4.2_01"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_01-b06)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_01-b06, mixed mode)
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Thanks,
--Paul

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I think this is nothing to do with Flash CS5 but with the font availability in your system. If the font doesn't have bold, italic variants of the font then the Style combo box becomes grayed out as there is no corresponding glyphs available for that. Normally Arial Unicode MS font doesn't have its Bold variant. Some word processor applications (eg MS Word) may do that by just thickening the available glyphs instead of using the actual bold glyphs from the Font which is incorrect.
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I have problem with fonts for my site, i have used "Lucida sans unicode " family for certain texts. it shows perfect in mozilla 3.5 and mozilla 4. But the font not supporting in mozilla 5.0? please help me

i have problem with fonts for my site, i have used "Lucida sans unicode " family for certain texts. it shows perfect in mozilla 3.5 and mozilla 4. But the font not supporting in mozilla 5.0? please help me

i have problem with fonts for my site, i have used "Lucida sans unicode " family for certain texts. it shows perfect in mozilla 3.5 and mozilla 4. But the font not supporting in mozilla 5.0? please help me

Arial Unicode font for Tamil, etc.?

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