Windows Glyph List 4

Windows Glyph List 4, or more commonly WGL4 for short, also known as the Pan-European character set, is a character repertoire on recent Microsoft operating systems comprising 656 Unicode characters. Its purpose is to provide an implementation guideline for producers of fonts for the representation of European natural languages; fonts that provide glyphs for the entire set of characters can claim WGL4 compliance and thus can expect to be compatible with a wide range of software.

As of 2004, WGL4 characters are the only ones guaranteed to display correctly on recent versions of all major platforms of Microsoft Windows. Some Unicode characters may be missing from default installations of Windows 9x (such as Armenian and Georgian) or of Windows XP (such as Amharic and Runic), but WGL4 glyphs are found on all major platforms of Microsoft Windows.

Because many fonts are designed to fulfill the WGL4 set, this set of characters is likely to work (display as other than replacement glyphs) on many computer systems. For instance your browser is probably able to draw all the characters in the table below, compared to the many missing characters that may be seen in other articles about Unicode.

Repertoire

The repertoire, defined by Microsoft, encompasses all the characters found in Microsoft’s code pages 1252 (Windows Western), 1250 (Windows Central European), 1251 (Windows Cyrillic), 1253 (Windows Greek), 1254 (Windows Turkish), and 1257 (Windows Baltic), as well as characters from MS-DOS codepage 437.

It does not cover the combining diacritics used by Vietnamese-related code page 1258, the Thai letters used in code page 874, Hebrew and Arabic letters covered by code pages 1255 and 1256, or the ideographic characters used by code pages 932, 936, 949 and 950.

It also does not cover the Romanian letters Ș, ș, Ț, and ț (U+0218–B), which were added to several of Microsoft’s fonts for Windows Vista (long after the WGL4 repertoire was originally defined).

In version 1.5 of the OpenType Specification (May 2008) four Cyrillic characters were added to the WGL4 character set: Ѐ (U+0400), Ѝ (U+040D), ѐ (U+0450) and ѝ (U+045D).[1][2][3]

Character table

U+ 0123456789ABCDEFBlock
0020 !"#$%&'()*+,-./C0 Controls and Basic Latin
(identical to ASCII)
0030 0123456789:;<=>?
0040 @ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO
0050 PQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_
0060 `abcdefghijklmno
0070 pqrstuvwxyz{|||}~ 
C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement
(identical to ISO/IEC 8859-1)
00A0  ¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª«¬-®¯
00B0 °±²³´µ·¸¹º»¼½¾¿
00C0 ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏ
00D0 ÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞß
00E0 àáâãäåæçèéêëìíîï
00F0 ðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿ
0100 ĀāĂ㥹ĆćĈĉĊċČčĎďLatin Extended-A
0110 ĐđĒēĔĕĖėĘęĚěĜĝĞğ
0120 ĠġĢģĤĥĦħĨĩĪīĬĭĮį
0130 İıIJijĴĵĶķĸĹĺĻļĽľĿ
0140 ŀŁłŃńŅņŇňʼnŊŋŌōŎŏ
0150 ŐőŒœŔŕŖŗŘřŚśŜŝŞş
0160 ŠšŢţŤťŦŧŨũŪūŬŭŮů
0170 ŰűŲųŴŵŶŷŸŹźŻżŽžſ
Latin Extended-B
0190  ƒ 
01F0  ǺǻǼǽǾǿ
02C0  ˆˇ ˉ  Spacing Modifier Letters
02D0  ˘˙˚˛˜˝ 
0380  ΄΅Ά·ΈΉΊ Ό ΎΏGreek
0390 ΐΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟ
03A0 ΠΡ ΣΤΥΦΧΨΩΪΫάέήί
03B0 ΰαβγδεζηθικλμνξο
03C0 πρςστυφχψωϊϋόύώ 
0400 ЀЁЂЃЄЅІЇЈЉЊЋЌЍЎЏCyrillic
0410 АБВГДЕЖЗИЙКЛМНОП
0420 РСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ
0430 абвгдежзийклмноп
0440 рстуфхцчшщъыьэюя
0450 ѐёђѓєѕіїјљњћќѝўџ
0490 Ґґ 
1E80  Latin Extended Additional
1EF0   
2010     General Punctuation
2020   
2030      
2040   
2070  Super/Subscripts
20A0     Currency Symbols
2100   Letterlike symbols
2110    
2120   Ω  
2150    Number Forms
2190  Arrows
21A0   
2200    Mathematical Operators
2210     
2220    
2240   
2260   
2300   Miscellaneous Technical
2310  
2320  
2500     Box drawing characters
2510     
2520    
2530    
2550
2560  
2580     Block Elements
2590  
25A0   Geometric Shapes
25B0     
25C0    
25D0   
25E0   
Miscellaneous Symbols
2630   
2640   
2660     
F000   Private Use Area
FB00   Alphabetic Presentation Forms
U+ 0123456789ABCDEFBlock
Legend
  not used
  optional
  private use
  added in OpenType Specification v1.5

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