Medieval Unicode Font Initiative

The Medieval Unicode Font Initiative ( MUFI ) is an international project of palaeographers, which seeks to encode special Latin characters in the Unicode standard and the ISO standard 10646.

In medieval manuscripts, there are numerous abbreviations ( cuts ), diacritics, and punctuation marks that are no longer in use today. Usually, these characters are simply reproduced in transcriptions in modern notation. For scientific purposes extended cuts are often in italics. The differing punctuation is ignored here in general.

For special purposes, such as the history of said studies, it is desirable to detect the text in the original spelling and digital display. Some deviate from the modern spelling letter-forms are essential for this purpose. A first Unicode encoding proposal ( see Related links ) for about 100 characters has been widely accepted by the Unicode Technical Committee in February 2006.

In order required by the project MUFI medieval characters also can already use prior to their inclusion in the Unicode standard, they will be provisionally coded some fonts in the so-called Private Use Area.

MUFI fonts

Different fonts include all or some MUFI characters:

• Junicode
• TITUS Cyberbit Basic
• Alphabetum
• Cardo
• Leeds Uni
• Notator Uni
• Andron Scriptor

The font Junicode contain a few different encodings, as they incurred before the MUFI project, and the MUFI coding should be compatible with the older Titus also Cyberbit font.