More or less complete Mac unicode font?

Is one actually available?

[rjohara]

I'd like to experiment with a big (semi-complete) unicode font just to see what can be done with it. I'm using a Mac with OS 8.6, and I keep seeing mentions of bitstream cyberbit, Arial MS Unicode that say, sure, you can get it to work, but all the links I find are either broken or don't extract. It apparently does work with OS 9-X (of course), but in the million pages I've just been scanning I know I've seen claims you can also get it to work with OS 8.6. I just can find a functioning copy. Can anyone point me to one as an actual downloadable mac font file?

[tedster]

This one is outside my area -- but hang in there, I am looking around for someone who might know.

[Eric_Jarvis]

best I can come up with is Alan Wood's page

<url>http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/fonts_mac.html</url>

[rjohara]

Yes, thank you, Alan Wood's pages are definitely the best resource, and I think I did come across them when searching. (Searching on 'Mac', 'unicode', and 'font' unfortunately doesn't produce a very narrow result, and I'd forgotten all the different pages I had looked at.)

If you go up one level on Wood's site it's full of general Unicode information (and is an elegantly designed set of pages, too). I was really just looking for something to play with to learn more about the subject, and it would appear that the one genuinely big Unicode font (which would of course be the most fun) is Arial Unicode MS, which is only available for Windows, alas. It has more than 50,000 characters and is over 20MB. Cool.