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Articles on the English Wikipedia may contain words or texts written in different languages and scripts. To be able to correctly view and edit these articles requires that you have the appropriate fonts installed and to have correctly configured your operating system and browser. This guide will help you to do so.

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Overview

Unicode

Articles on Wikipedia are encoded using Unicode (specifically UTF-8)[أ], an industry standard designed to allow text and symbols from all of the writing systems of the world to be consistently represented and manipulated by computers. Because UTF-8 is backward compatible with ASCII, and most modern browsers have at least basic Unicode support, most users will experience little difficulty reading and editing most of Wikipedia.

Font

Most computers with Microsoft Windows, Apple's macOS and many Linux variants will already have fonts with support for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and the International Phonetic Alphabet installed. Many mobile devices, such as the iPhone and iPad also include such fonts. Several historic and accented characters (used in the transliteration of foreign scripts) may be missing, though.

Microsoft fonts

Other available Unicode fonts

Bolded fonts are recommended.

Font Typeface License Format Encoding
Aboriginal Sans-serif, Serif Freeware OpenType Unicode 5.2
Charis SIL Serif Open Source OpenType, Graphite Unicode 7.0
Code2002 Archived ديسمبر 15, 2010 at the Wayback Machine Freeware (must not be altered) TrueType Unicode, plane 2
Code2001 0.919 Archived سبتمبر 27, 2007 at the Wayback Machine Freeware (must not be altered) TrueType Unicode, plane 1
Code2000 1.171 Archived سبتمبر 27, 2007 at the Wayback Machine Serif Shareware (unrestricted) TrueType Unicode, plane 0
DejaVu Sans-serif, Sans-mono, Serif Open Source OpenType Unicode
Doulos SIL Serif Open Source OpenType, Graphite Unicode 7.0
Everson Mono 3.2b4 Sans-mono Shareware TrueType Unicode
Fonts for Ancient Scripts (Greek, Egyptian, cuneiform...) Varying No license, but may be used for any purpose TrueType Unicode
Google Noto (Project to support all Unicode scripts) Sans-serif, Serif Open Source OpenType Unicode
Hanazono (80,000+ Chinese characters supported) Ming (comparable to serifed typefaces) Freeware (unrestricted) TrueType Unicode
TITUS Cyberbit Basic Serif Non-commercial TrueType, but requires Windows to install Unicode 4.0
Quivira Serif Freeware OpenType Unicode 7.0
GNU Unifont Mono Freeware (GPL) TrueType Unicode 11.0

Browsers

Internet Explorer
supports Latin (however not all extended sets), Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic and Hebrew. Support for East Asian and some Indic scripts is available if support for this has been installed for Windows. As Internet Explorer will only use the default font for other scripts, those are usually not supported (unless the default font does).
Firefox
tries to render any character using all the fonts available on the system so multilingual support is generally good. The default rendering engine can support complex script rendering. Some Linux distributions ship with a Pango-based rendering engine which also does, although this may currently cause some display glitches with justified text.
Opera
tries to render any character using all the fonts available on the system so multilingual support is also good.[5] Opera uses the operating system to perform contextual glyph selection, ligature forming, character stacking, combining character support and other character shaping tasks.[6]
Chrome
Does not directly support several languages of South and Southeast Asian countries, but otherwise renders some tofu signs, due to its problem of font fallback mechanism, you may need the Advanced Font Settings extension to optimize. Renders Devanagari (used for Hindi), Bengali, Sinhala, Gurmukhi, and Tibetan scripts in the examples below, but not some of languages of Southeast Asian countries.

Scripts

Adlam

Adlam is a right-to-left alphabetic script devised by the brothers Ibrahima and Abdoulaye Barry, in order to represent the Fula language (Fulani). It is supported by the following font:

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Adlam Sample.png 𞤀𞤣𞤤𞤥

Note: As of August 2018, this script is not being used on the Fula Wikipedia.


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Aegean numerals

Aegean numerals were used by the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. They are supported by the following fonts:

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Aegean num 1986.svg 𐄢𐄡𐄗𐄌

Ahom

Ahom script is a script used to write Ahom language. They are supported by the following fonts:

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Ahom rendering.png 𑜇𑜞


Ancient South Arabian

Ancient South Arabian script (Old South Arabian) was used to write the Minean, Sabaean, Qatabanian, Hadramite, and Himyaritic languages of Yemen from the 8th century BCE to the 6th century CE. It is supported by the following fonts:

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Himjar wa.PNGHimjar dad.PNGHimjar dal.PNGHimjar kha.PNGHimjar ha.PNG 𐩠𐩭𐩵𐩼𐩥

Armenian

The Armenian alphabet is only used to write the Armenian language. It is supported by the following fonts:

Correct rendering Your browser/device
Armenian-render.svg Հայաստան

Avestan

The Avestan alphabet is used to write the Avestan language. It is supported by the following fonts:

Correct rendering Your browser/device
Avestan Rendered.svg 𐬯𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬔𐬁

Balinese

The Balinese script is used to write the Balinese language. The script is encoded in block "Balinese", code points 1B00–1B7F (Unicode.org chart). It is supported by the following fonts:

Correct rendering Swasti Prapti ring Wikipédia Basa Bali.png
Your browser/device قالب:Bal
Transliteration Swasti Prapti ring Wikipédia Basa Bali

Bamum

Bamum is a series of scripts devised for the Bamum language by King Njoya of Cameroon between 1896 and 1918. It is supported by the following font:

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Bamum King Njoya (4).png ꚩꚫꛑꚩꚳ ꛆꚧꛂ

Batak

The Batak alphabet is used to write the Batak languages. It is supported by the following fonts:

Correct rendering Your browser/device Transliteration
Batak-render.svg قالب:Btk aksara

Note: As of August 2018, this script is not in wide use on the Toba Batak test wiki at the Wikimedia Incubator (apart from a few images on the Main Page).


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Baybayin / Old Tagalog

Baybayin (also known as the Tagalog script in Unicode and Alibata) is a form of pre-Spanish Philippine writing system from which modern minority scripts in the Philippines descended. It is supported by the following fonts:

Correct rendering Your browser/device Transliteration
Tagalog in Baybayin script postkudlit.png ᜀᜅ᜔ ᜊᜏᜆ᜔ ᜆᜂ ᜀᜌ᜔ ᜁᜐᜒᜈᜒᜎᜅ᜔ ᜈ ᜋᜌ᜔ ᜃᜇᜉᜆᜈ᜔,
ᜀᜆ᜔ ᜉᜈ᜔ᜆᜌ᜔ ᜐ ᜇᜒᜄ᜔ᜈᜒᜇᜇ᜔,
ᜀᜆ᜔ ᜃᜇᜉᜆᜈ᜔ ᜀᜅ᜔ ᜆᜂ ᜀᜌ᜔ ᜊᜒᜈᜒᜌᜌᜀᜈ᜔ ᜅ᜔ ᜉᜄᜒᜁᜐᜒᜉ᜔,
ᜀᜆ᜔ ᜃᜇᜓᜈᜓᜅᜈ᜔ ᜈ ᜃᜁᜎᜅᜅ᜔ ᜋᜄ᜔ᜃᜁᜐ ᜐ ᜃᜉᜆᜒᜇᜈ᜔
Ang bawat tao ay isinilang na may karapatan, at pantay sa dignidad, at karapatan ang tao ay biniyayaan ng pag-iisip, at karapatan na kailangang magkaisa sa kapatiran.

Note: As of August 2018, this script is not being used on the Tagalog Wikipedia.

Brahmi

Brahmi script is one of the oldest writing systems used in Ancient India and present South and Central Asia from the 1st millennium BCE. It is supported by the following fonts:

Correct rendering Your browser/device
Brahmi font rendering test.svg 𑀤𑁂𑀯𑀸𑀦𑀧𑀺𑀬𑁂𑀦

Note: The Brahmi script should not be confused with the family of Brahmic scripts.

Buhid

Buhid script is used to write the Buhid language. It is supported to varying extents by the following fonts:

  • Noto Sans Buhid (direct download link), (GitHub link), a font made by Google
  • Quivira NOT RECOMMENDED FOR BUHID: It contains basic Buhid letters but not the ligatures required to correctly render many Buhid syllables
  • Code2000 NOT RECOMMENDED FOR BUHID: It contains basic Buhid letters but not the ligatures required to correctly render many Buhid syllables
Correct rendering Your browser/device Sample syllables
Buhid Rendered.svg ᝃᝒᝎᝒᝐᝓᝈᝓᝆ kilisunuta

Burmese

The Burmese alphabet is used to write the Burmese language. The script is encoded in block "Myanmar", code points 1000-109F (Unicode.org chart). It is supported by the following fonts:

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Complex Text Rendering - Burmese.svg ဃ + ြ → ဃြ

Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

Canadian Aboriginal syllabics are an abugida used to write a number of First Nations languages in Canada, including Cree, Ojibwe, Naskapi, Inuktitut, Blackfoot, Sayisi, and Carrier. It is supported by the following fonts:

Correct rendering Your browser/device
Nehiyawewin.svg ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ

Note: As of August 2018, this script is not being used on the Atikamekw Wikipedia, plus Ojibwe and Blackfoot test wikis at the Wikimedia Incubator.

Cham

The Cham alphabet is used to write the Cham language. It is supported by the following fonts:

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Кха чампа.png

Note: As of August 2018, this script is not being used on the Eastern Cham and Western Cham test wikis at the Wikimedia Incubator.

Cherokee

The Cherokee syllabary, used to write the Cherokee language, is supported by the following fonts:

Lowercase Cherokee letters were added to Unicode version 8.0 in June, 2015. Font support for lowercase Cherokee is not yet widespread. Those fonts that do support lowercase are:

Cherokee uppercase letters:

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Cherokee.svg ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ

Cherokee lowercase letters:

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Cherokee Lowercase.png Ꮳꮃꭹ Ꭶꮼꮒꭿꮝꮧ

Coptic

The Coptic alphabet is used to write the Coptic language, which was used in Egypt before Arabic. It is currently used solely as a liturgical language, and is supported by the following fonts:

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Coptic-render.svg ⲙⲛⲧⲣⲙⲛⲕⲏⲙⲉ

Cuneiform

The cuneiform script was primarily used to write Akkadian (including Assyrian and Babylonian) and Sumerian. It is supported by the following fonts:

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Cuneiform Rendered.svg 𒅎𒀝𒂵𒌈

Deseret

The Deseret alphabet is an alternative alphabet for writing the English language. It is supported by the following fonts:

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Deseret Alphabet.svg 𐐔𐐯𐑅𐐨𐑉𐐯𐐻 𐐈𐑊𐑁𐐩𐐺𐐯𐐻

East Asian

Script Correct rendering Your browser/device
Traditional Chinese Chinesetexttest.png 人人生來自由,
在尊嚴和權利上一律平等。
他們有理性和良心,
請以手足關係的精神相對待。
Simplified Chinese SimChinesetexttest.png 人人生来自由,
在尊严和权利上一律平等。
他们有理性和良心,
请以手足关系的精神相对待。
Japanese Japanese text test.svg すべての人間は、生まれながらにして自由であり、
かつ、尊厳と権利と について平等である。
人間は、理性と良心とを授けられており、
互いに同胞の精神をもって行動しなければならない。
Korean Korean text test.svg 모든 인간은 태어날 때부터
자유로우며 그 존엄과 권리에
있어 동등하다. 인간은 천부적으로
이성과 양심을 부여받았으며 서로
형제애의 정신으로 행동하여야 한다.

Several Wikipedias use these scripts, including Chinese, Classical Chinese, Cantonese (Yue), Gan, Japanese, and Korean. They are not used (widely) in the Min Nan, Zhuang, or Vietnamese Wikipedias, even though the scripts are sometimes used in those languages, as well.

Hentaigana

Hentaigana are obsolete or nonstandard hiragana used occasionally on signage in Japan. Hentaigana characters are supported by the following fonts:

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Hiragana NO 01.svg 𛂛

Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Egyptian hieroglyphs are supported by the following fonts:

Glyph stacking and formatting is accomplished via Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls, which were added to version 12 of the Unicode standard in March 2019. However the above fonts do not yet support this feature.

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G25x
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𓇋𓏏𓐰𓈖𓐰𓇳𓅜𓐍𓐰𓈖

See also Help:WikiHiero syntax.

Elbasan

The Elbasan script is a mid 18th-century alphabetic script used for the Albanian language. It is supported by the following fonts:

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Elbasan letter a.svg 𐔀

Ethiopic

The Ethiopic syllabary is used in central east Africa for Amharic, Bilen, Oromo, Tigre, Tigrinya, and other languages. It evolved from the script for classical Ge'ez, which is now strictly a liturgical language. It is supported by the following fonts:

Correct rendering Your browser/device
Ethiopiya-text.svg ኢትዮጵያ

Note: As of August 2018, this script is not being used on the Oromo Wikipedia.

Gothic

The Gothic alphabet, which is used to write the Gothic language, is supported by the following fonts:

Correct rendering Your browser/device
Gutisk.svg 𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺

Hanunó'o

Hanunó'o script is used to write the Hanunó'o language. It is supported to varying extents by the following fonts:

Correct rendering Your browser/device Sample syllables
Hanunoo script sample, syllables nga ngi ngu.svg ᜥᜥᜲᜥᜳ nga ngi ngu

Indic

The following table compares how a correctly enabled computer would render the following scripts with how your computer renders them:

Script Correct rendering Your browser/device Help page
Bengali Complex Text Rendering - Bengali.svg ক + িকি Wikipedia:Bangla script display help
Devanāgarī Complex Text Rendering - Devanagari.svg क + िकि Template:Devfonthelp
Gujarati Complex Text Rendering - Gujarati.svg ક + િકિ
Gurmukhī Complex Text Rendering - Gurmukhi.svg ਕ + ਿਕਿ
Kannada Complex Text Rendering - Kannada.svg ಕ + ಿಕಿ
Malayalam Complex Text Rendering - Malayalam.svg ക + െകെ
Odia Complex Text Rendering - Odia.svg କ + େକେ
Sinhala Complex Text Rendering - Sinhala.svg ඵ + ේඵේ
Tibetan Complex Text Rendering - Tibetan.svg ར + ྐ + ྱརྐྱ
Tamil Complex Text Rendering - Tamil.svg க + ேகே
Telugu Complex Text Rendering - Telugu.svg య + ీయీ

These scripts are used in a great many Wikipedias, including the ones for Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Central Tibetan, Dzongkha, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Goan Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Newar, Odia, Pali, Eastern Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sinhalese, Tamil, Telugu, and Tulu.

They are also used in the Wikimedia Incubator test wikis for Angika, Awadhi, Badaga, Bodo, Chhattisgarhi, Haryanvi, Kanikkaran, Kutchi, Rajasthani, Saurashtra, and Tamang.

Inscriptional Parthian

Inscriptional Parthian was used for writing the Parthian language. It is supported by the following fonts:

Correct rendering Your browser/device
Inscriptional Parthian rendering test.svg 𐭀𐭅𐭎 𐭔𐭅𐭂𐭅𐭍 𐭋𐭍

Javanese

The Javanese script is used to write the Javanese language. It is supported by Unicode 5.2 and above. The script is a so-called SIL Graphite-script, and is best supported by Firefox. As of recently however, it can be rendered by the OpenType and TrueType standards, provided the right font is used. The script is supported by the following fonts:

Correct rendering Sugeng rawuh tuladha.png
Your browser/device ꧋ꦱꦸꦒꦼꦁꦫꦮꦸꦃꦮꦺꦤ꧀ꦠꦼꦤ꧀ꦲꦶꦁꦮꦶꦏꦶꦥꦺꦝꦶꦪꦃꦗꦮꦶ꧉
Transliteration Sugeng Rawuh Wènten ing Wikipédia Jawi

Kaithi

Kaithi, also called "Kayathi" or "Kayasthi", is a historical script used widely in parts of North India. It is supported by the following font:

Correct rendering Your browser/device
Kaithi noto.svg 𑂍𑂶𑂟𑂲

Kharosthi

Kharosthi, also spelled Kharoshthi or Kharoṣṭhī, is an ancient script used in ancient Gandhara and ancient India. It is supported by the following fonts:

  • Noto Sans Kharosthi NOT RECOMMENDED: Even though it’s a font made by Google, it doesn’t render many necessary conjunctions, but Segoe UI does. It also has misplaced vowel marks.
  • Segoe UI Historic (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 10 and later)
Correct rendering Your browser/device
Kharosthi font rendering sample.png 𐨤𐨪𐨌𐨪𐨿𐨗𐨸𐨅𐨌𐨏

Khudabadi

Khudabadi, also spelled Khudawadi, or Sindhi, is a script used to write Sindhi Language. It is supported by the following fonts:

Correct rendering Your browser/device Transliteration
Sindhi khudabadi.svg 𑋝𑋡𑋟𑋟𑋐𑋢 Sindhi

Note: As of August 2018, this script is not being used on the Sindhi Wikipedia.

Klingon

The Klingon script is used to write the Klingon language, an artistic language of the Star Trek franchise. The script is not encoded in Unicode but a range of code points defined in the ConScript Unicode Registry (CSUR) is in common use. The following fonts support these CSUR code points:

Correct rendering Your browser/device
ملف:PIqaD in pIqaD.png 

Limbu

The Limbu alphabet, used to write the Limbu language, is supported by the following fonts:

Correct rendering Your browser/device
Limbu-render.svg ᤕᤠᤰᤌᤢᤱ

Linear A

The undeciphered Linear A script was used in ancient Greece. It is supported by the following fonts:

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Linear A Sign A001.svgLinear A Sign A021.svgLinear A Sign A031.svgLinear A Sign A054.svgLinear A Sign A076.svgLinear A Sign A123.svg 𐘀  𐘏  𐘞  𐘮  𐘽  𐙌

Linear B

The Linear B script was used for writing Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of the Greek language. It is supported by the following fonts:

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Linear B Sample.png 𐁂𐀐𐀷

Lisu (Fraser alphabet)

The Fraser alphabet is used only to write the Lisu language. It is supported by the following fonts:

Correct rendering Your browser/device
Fraser-alphabet-render.svg ꓛꓬꓹ ꓡꓯꓺ ꓡꓯꓺ

Lontara

The Lontara script is used to write Buginese, Makassarese, and Mandar. The script is encoded in block "Buginese", code points 1A00–1A1F (Unicode.org chart). It is supported by the following fonts:

Correct rendering Your browser/device Transliteration
Lontara script.png ᨅᨔ ᨕᨘᨁᨗ Basa Ugi

Mandaic

The Mandaic alphabet, used to write the Mandaic language and Neo-Mandaic, is supported by the following font:

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Mandaic sample abaga.svg ࡀࡁࡀࡂࡀ

Marchen

The Marchen script, is used to write the Zhang-Zhung language, is supported by the following font:

Correct rendering Your browser/device
Nonotonoto.png 𑲁𑲠𑱹𑲚

Meitei

The Meitei script, used to write the Meetei language, is supported by the following font:

Correct rendering Your browser/device
Meitei language written in Meitei script.svg ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ

Mongolian

The Mongolian script is occasionally used to write the Mongolian language on the internet, though Cyrillic is more common. It is also used to write the Manchu language and Xibe language. It is written from top to bottom in columns ordered from left to right. It is supported by the following fonts:

Correct rendering Your browser/device
Monggol bicig.svg ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠌

Note: As of August 2018, this script is not being generally used on the Mongolian Wikipedia (which uses Cyrillic in general).

New Tai Lue

New Tai Lue script, also known as Simplified Tai Lue, is used to write the Tai Lue language (Tai Lü). It is supported by the following fonts:

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New Tai Lue script sample.png ᦟᦲᧅᦷᦎᦺᦑᦟᦹᧉ

Nüshu

Nüshu is a syllabic script derived from Chinese characters that was used exclusively among women in Jiangyong County in Hunan province of southern China. It is supported by the following font:

Correct rendering Your browser/device
Nu shu.png 𛆁𛈬

Note: In this image, the Nüshu characters are written right-to-left.

Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong

Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong is an alphabet script devised for White Hmong and Green Hmong in the 1980s by Reverend Chervang Kong for use within his United Christians Liberty Evangelical Church. It is supported by the following fonts:

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Nyiakeng Puachue Script Sample.svg 𞄀𞄩𞄰𞄁𞄦𞄱𞄂𞄤𞄳𞄬𞄃𞄥𞄳

Ogham

The Ogham alphabet was used to write the Old Irish language from the 1st to 9th century AD. It is supported by the following fonts:

Correct rendering Your browser/device
Ogham Sample.png ᚛ᚓᚅᚐᚁᚐᚏᚏ᚜

Ol Chiki

The Ol Chiki script script was created in 1925 by Raghunath Murmu for the Santali language. It is supported by the following fonts:

Correct rendering Your browser/device Transliteration
Ol Chiki.svg ᱚᱞ ᱪᱤᱠᱤ Ol Chiki

Old Persian cuneiform

The Old Persian cuneiform script was used to write the Old Persian language. The script is encoded in block "Old Persian", code points 103A0–103DF (Unicode.org chart). It is supported by the following fonts:

Correct rendering Your browser/device Transliteration
Old-persian-render.svg 𐎣𐎲𐎢𐎪𐎡𐎹 Kambujiya (Cambyses II)

Osage

The Osage alphabet is used to write Osage, a Native American language spoken in Oklahoma. It is supported by the following fonts:

Correct rendering Your browser/device
ملف:Wazhazhe ie.png 𐓏𐒰.𐓓𐒰.𐓓𐒷 𐒻.𐒷

Phaistos Disc

The Phaistos disc is an artifact discovered on the island of Crete which contains as-yet undeciphered symbols. These symbols are supported by the following fonts:

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Phaistos-A23.png 𐇑𐇛𐇪𐇝𐇯𐇡𐇪

Psalter Pahlavi

Psalter Pahlavi was used for writing Middle Persian on paper. It is supported by the following font:

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Cross of Herat - Psalter Pahlavi Inscription.png 𐮁𐮃𐮉 𐮆𐮈 𐮌𐮐𐮈𐮈𐮋𐮈 𐮁𐮅𐮅𐮏𐮊𐮈 𐮁𐮅𐮄 𐮆𐮈 𐮌𐮈𐮐𐮈𐮃𐮏
𐮋𐮀𐮊𐮈𐮃𐮈 𐮆𐮈 𐮂𐮌𐮀𐮊𐮈 𐮆𐮈 𐮋𐮌 𐮉𐮌𐮈𐮐𐮈 𐮆𐮈 𐮇𐮊𐮈𐮃𐮈 𐮋𐮌𐮅
𐮎𐮅𐮌 𐮀𐮐𐮋𐮀𐮌𐮏 𐮊𐮀 𐮫 𐮀𐮎𐮅𐮈𐮃𐮂𐮊 𐮎𐮅𐮌
𐮅𐮊 𐮉𐮌𐮐𐮈𐮈 𐮆𐮈𐮋 𐮇𐮅 𐮀𐮋𐮅𐮉

Note: As of August 2018, this script is not being used on the Middle Persian test wiki at the Wikimedia Incubator.

Runes

Runes are supported by the following fonts:

Script Correct rendering Your browser/device
Elder Futhark (2nd to 8th centuries) Elder-Futhark-render.svg ᚠᚢᚦᚨᚱᚲ
Anglo-Saxon runes (5th to 11th centuries) Anglo-saxon-runes-render.svg ᚠᚢᚦᚩᚱᚳ
Medieval runes (12th to 15th centuries) Medieval-runes-render.svg ᚠᚢᚧᛆᚱᚴ

Sharada

The Sharada script is a Brahmic script that is almost extinct. It is used (rarely) to write the Kashmiri language and Sanskrit. It's available in those fonts:

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Koshur in Sharada Script.png 𑆑𑆾𑆯𑆶𑆫 Koshur

Note: As of August 2018, this script is not being used on the Kashmiri or Sanskrit Wikipedia.

Siddham

Siddham script is a script used to write Sanskrit language. They are supported by the following fonts:

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OmMeNiPadHum.svg 𑖌𑖼𑖦𑖜𑖰𑖢𑖟𑖿𑖦𑖸𑖮𑗝𑖼 Om Mani Padme Hum

Sora Sompeng

The Sora Sompeng Alphabet is a Brahmic Script, which is a script to write Sora language, a language spoken by about 300,000 people. It is available in these fonts:

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Sora da.png 𑃐

Sundanese

The Sundanese script is used to write the Sundanese language. The script is encoded in block "Sundanese", code points 1B80–1BBF (Unicode.org chart). It is supported by the following fonts:

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Ladrang-sunda.svg ᮜᮓᮢᮀ
ᮃᮚ ᮠᮤᮏᮤ ᮛᮥᮕ ᮞᮒᮧ ᮜᮩᮒᮤᮊ᮪,
ᮆᮀᮊᮀ-ᮆᮀᮊᮀ, ᮆᮀᮊᮀ-ᮆᮀᮊᮀ,
ᮞᮧᮊ᮪ ᮜᮥᮜᮥᮙ᮪ᮎᮒᮔ᮪ ᮓᮤ ᮎᮄ,
ᮃᮛᮤ ᮘᮍᮥᮔ᮪ ᮃᮛᮦᮊ᮪ ᮞᮛᮥᮕ ᮏᮀ
ᮜᮔ᮪ᮎᮂ.
Ladrang Aya hiji rupa sato leutik,
Éngkang-éngkang, éngkang-éngkang,
Sok lulumcatan di cai,
Ari bangun arék sarupa jang lancah.

Sutton SignWriting

Sutton SignWriting is used to write any Sign language. It is supported with the SignWriting 2010 Typeface which includes 2 TrueType fonts:

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SignWriting-render-string.svg 𝧪𝪞𝪨 𝠀𝪛𝪩 𝠀𝪛𝪡 𝧪𝪤

Sylheti Nagari

Sylheti Nagari (Silôṭi Nagri) is an endangered script used for writing Sylheti language. It's available in those fonts:

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ملف:Sylheti nagari.png ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ Silôṭi

Syriac / Aramaic script

The Syriac and Aramaic scripts are used to write the Syriac and Aramaic languages. As with most Semitic scripts, these scripts flow from right to left, which can cause letters to appear in the wrong order on some left-to-right systems. The tag {{rtl-lang}} can fix this issue.[بحاجة لمصدر]

Most operating systems provide support for Syriac scripts natively, but only the Maḏnḥāyā (ܡܕܢܚܝܐ‎) and ʾEsṭrangēlā (قالب:Script/Strng) varieties have correct rendering.[ت] In order to render the Serṭā (ܣܪܛܐ‎) variety, additional fonts are needed. These scripts are supported by the following fonts:

Script Correct rendering Your browser/device
Maḏnḥāyā Maltho Madenhaya.svg ܒܪܹܝܼܫܝܼܬ݀ ܐܝܼܬ݂ܲܘܗ݇ܝ ܗ݇ܘܵܐ ܡܹܠܬܵ݀ܐ.
Serṭā Maltho Serto.svg ܒ݁ܪܺܝܫܺܝܬܼ ܐܻܝܬܼܰܘܗ̱ܝ ܗ̱ܘܳܐ ܡܶܠܬܼܳܐ.
ʾEsṭrangēlā Maltho Strangilo.svg قالب:Script/Strng

Tai Le

The Tai Le alphabet is used for the Tai Nuea language (Tai Nüa). It is supported by the following fonts:

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Tai Le text sample.svg ᥖᥭᥰᥘᥫᥴ Tai Le ([tai˦.lə˧˥])

Tai Viet

Tai Viet script is used for writing the Tai languages Tai Dam, Tai Dón, and Thai Song. It is supported by the following fonts:

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Tai Viet rendering.svg ꪼꪕꪒꪾ

Tangut

The Tangut script was used to write the Tangut language, a Tibeto-Burman language once spoken in the Western Xia, also known as the Tangut Empire. It is supported by the following fonts:

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Tangut Sample.png 𗈁𗤻𗖰𗚩

Tifinagh script

The Tifinagh alphabet is used to write the Berber languages. IRCAM (Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe) has a software suite developed for Windows XP that contains a Tifinagh keyboard and a font available for download here. The script is supported by the following fonts:

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Tifinagh Rendered.svg ⵜⵉⴼⵉⵏⴰⵖ tifinagh

This script is used in several test wikis at the Wikimedia Incubator, including Central Atlas Tamazight, Tachelhit (Tasusiyt, Shilha), Riffian, and Shawiya.

Yi Syllabary

Modern Yi script is a standardized syllabary derived from the classic script in 1974 by the local Chinese government. It is used to write various Yi languages. It is supported by the following fonts:

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Nuosu bburma.svg ꆈꌠꁱꂷ

Special cases

Romanian

The Romanian alphabet contains an S-comma (Ș ș) and T-comma (Ț ț). These characters were added to Unicode 3.0 at the request of the Romanian standardization institute. As font support for these characters has been poor in the past, many computer users use the similar characters S-cedilla (Ş ş) and T-cedilla (Ţ ţ) instead. However, on Wikipedia it is recommended to use the correct characters with comma below.

See also

References

Notes

  1. ^ Until June 2005, when MediaWiki 1.5 came into use on the Wikimedia projects, articles on the English Wikipedia were encoded using ISO/IEC 8859-1 (although the additional characters from the Windows-1252 character set were used in practice.) All characters from the ISO/IEC 10646 Universal Character Set could be accessed through numerical entities, as specified by the HTML 4.01 specification. Since, nearly all pages have been converted to use Unicode directly. Old discussion on the topic can be read at Wikipedia talk:Unicode.
  2. ^ Not to be confused with MS Sans Serif
  3. ^ Microsoft Windows support the ʾEsṭrangēlā variety via Estrangelo Edessa and Segoe UI. Historically, some Linux distributions supported Maḏnḥāyā variety via FreeSans.

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