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Now, I'm stating the obvious here, but if you integrate this into whatever you do, avoid doing something with it that would truly enrage the FSF. When in doubt, ask.

Additionally: Another use I've found for this font is for boosting Unicode support on legacy systems (including devices like the Kindle Touch). You even get emoji (up to 2018, but then you get Plane0 characters up to 2023-24, so stuff such as the Reiwa Era symbol, the Symbol For Type A Electronics, and quite a few of the extensions of certain scripts that were slotted into Plane0 are all present.)
Throw this into ReactOS, and you have better Unicode support. Or you can give older-than-dirt machines better Unicode support, which can help if using InterWebPPC on a Tiger or better PowerPC Mac with a G3 or better (even a Power Mac 7500 can be coaxed into running a Mac OS X version that will work, but it will be slow), or Basilisk XPMod IA-32 (Firefox fork) on Windows XP with a Pentium 1-derived CPU with CMOV instructions, or Firefox 52 + KernelEx on Windows 98, and allow the modern web to be more browsable on older machines, especially if emoji is involved. It's even useful for updating the emoji support of machines just old enough to be stuck on older emoji versions with no upgrade paths, but not ones from the 1990s or prior to the 2010s. For instance, I have a 2013 MacBook Air running Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks (also 2013), and it has such a small drive that it was always upgrade-challenged with regards to macOS versions. Adding UnifontEX allowed it to go from 2013 emoji (the year before Wingdings, Wingdings 2, Wingdings 3, Webdings, and the other dingbats and characters added into Unicode then were added) to 2018 emoji plus many more symbols, including Unicode 15 Plane 0. So, if you are using a secondhand computer, you can attain fairly-reasonable levels of Unicode support, even without installing something such as Linux, BSD-family OSes, or Hurd (yes, I know what *that* is.) Many people are stuck with older machines or devices for one reason or another, and UnifontEX can assist with how they handle Unicode, especially given how often people on various websites use Unicode to make fancy text. Being able to at least see *something* other than mojibake or boxes is a good thing. Personally, I just tell Firefox (or any other browser capable of overriding page fonts) to set ALL page fonts to UnifontEX, but that isn't strictly necessary.
Throw this into ReactOS, and you have better Unicode support. Or you can give older-than-dirt machines better Unicode support, which can help if using InterWebPPC on a Tiger or better PowerPC Mac with a G3 or better (even a Power Mac 7500 can be coaxed into running a Mac OS X version that will work, but it will be slow), or Basilisk XPMod IA-32 (Firefox fork) on Windows XP with a Pentium 1-derived CPU with CMOV instructions, or Firefox 52 + KernelEx on Windows 98, and allow the modern web to be more browsable on older machines, especially if emoji is involved. It's even useful for updating the emoji support of machines just old enough to be stuck on older emoji versions with no upgrade paths, but not ones from the 1990s or prior to the 2010s. For instance, I have a 2013 MacBook Air running Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks (also 2013), and it has such a small drive that it was always upgrade-challenged with regards to macOS versions. Adding UnifontEX allowed it to go from 2013 emoji (the year before Wingdings, Wingdings 2, Wingdings 3, Webdings, and the other dingbats and characters added into Unicode then were added) to 2018 emoji plus many more symbols, including Unicode 15.1 Plane 0. So, if you are using a secondhand computer, you can attain fairly-reasonable levels of Unicode support, even without installing something such as Linux, BSD-family OSes, or Hurd (yes, I know what *that* is.) Many people are stuck with older machines or devices for one reason or another, and UnifontEX can assist with how they handle Unicode, especially given how often people on various websites use Unicode to make fancy text. Being able to at least see *something* other than mojibake or boxes is a good thing. Personally, I just tell Firefox (or any other browser capable of overriding page fonts) to set ALL page fonts to UnifontEX, but that isn't strictly necessary.

Also UnifontEX allows improving the emoji support of older smartphones still in use. I've seen people use it on phones nearly a decade old to get better emoji.

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