World glyph set

The world glyph sets are character repertoires comprising a subset of Unicode characters. Their purpose is to provide an implementation guideline for producers of fonts for the representation of natural languages. Unlike Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL) it is specified by font foundries and not by operating system manufacturers. It is, however, very similar in glyph coverage to WGL4, but neither is a full subset of the other.

Digital fonts for the European and American market have traditionally often been sold in a standard (“Std“) package for western languages and additional separate files to cover central (“CE”), eastern (“Baltic”) and southern (“Turk”) European languages in the Roman script and sometimes also packages to support for the Greek (monotonic) and Cyrillic scripts. With the advent of the OpenType format, which supports Unicode, all characters could be included in a single font file. Some font foundries continue to sell packages with differing glyph coverage where the basic one hardly covers more than Windows 1252. They introduced certain variants like Professional (“Pro”) which supports all major languages written with Latin letters, Commercial( “Com”) for international communication in office use, such as those covering Linotype Extended European Characterset (LEEC) or, adding Greek and Cyrillic, WGL or world glyph sets.

The set is used in several font families by Linotype and Monotype[1] such as Neue Frutiger W1G[2]

Character table

W1G character table[3]
U+ 0123456789ABCDEF
0020 !"#$%&'()*+,-./
0030 0123456789:;<=>?
0040 @ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO
0050 PQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_
0060 `abcdefghijklmno
0070 pqrstuvwxyz{|||}~
00A0  ¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª«¬-®¯
00B0 °±²³´µ·¸¹º»¼½¾¿
00C0 ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏ
00D0 ÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞß
00E0 àáâãäåæçèéêëìíîï
00F0 ðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿ
0100 ĀāĂ㥹ĆćĈĉĊċČčĎď
0110 ĐđĒēĔĕĖėĘęĚěĜĝĞğ
0120 ĠġĢģĤĥĦħĨĩĪīĬĭĮį
0130 İıIJijĴĵĶķĸĹĺĻļĽľĿ
0140 ŀŁłŃńŅņŇňŋŊŋŌōŎŏ
0150 ŐőŒœŔŕŖŗŘřŚśŜŝŞş
0160 ŠšŢţŤťŦŧŨũŪūŬŭŮů
0170 ŰűŲųŴŵŶŷŸŹźŻżŽž
0190 ƒ
01F0 ǺǻǼǽǾǿ
0210 ȘșȚț
02C0 ˆˇ ˉ
02D0 ˘˙˚˛˜˝
0370 ;
0380 ΄΅Ά·ΈΉΊ Ό ΎΏ
0390 ΐΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟ
03A0 ΠΡ ΣΤΥΦΧΨΩΪΫάέήί
03B0 ΰαβγδεζηθικλμνξο
03C0 πρςστυφχψωϊϋόύώ
0400 ЀЁЂЃЄЅІЇЈЉЊЋЌЍЎЏ
0410 АБВГДЕЖЗИЙКЛМНОП
0420 РСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ
0430 абвгдежзийклмноп
0440 рстуфхцчшщъыьэюя
0450 ѐёђѓєѕіїјљњћќѝўџ
0460 Ѣѣ
0470 ѲѳѴѵ
0490 Ґґ
1E80
1EF0
2010
2020
2030
2040
2070
2080
20A0
2100
2110
2120 Ω
2150
2200
2210
2220
2240
2260
FB00

See also

References

  1. Fonts.com Keyword Search “W1G”
  2. Neue Frutiger — History
  3. Linotype: European OpenType character set – W1G
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