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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
Font | Included with | Scripts | Description |
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Western, Japanese, Hangul, Johab, Big5, GB 2312, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Turkish, Baltic, Central European, Celtic, Cyrillic, Thai, Lao, Tibetan, Oriya, Bengali, Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Vietnamese | Supports a wide number of scripts, but is of a slightly lower quality than Arial because it lacks kerning and is not smoothed. Contains a minor bug that causes double-wide diacritics to be placed on the wrong characters. | |
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Western, Hebrew, Greek, Turkish, Baltic, Central European, Cyrillic | Has a much smaller character repertoire than that of Arial Unicode MS, but is more legible. | |
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Western, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Turkish, Baltic, Central European, Celtic, Cyrillic, Thai and Vietnamese | Has a much smaller character repertoire than that of Arial Unicode MS, but is more legible, especially (according to Meta) in terms of Arabic and Persian characters. | |
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Western, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Turkish, Celtic, Baltic, Central European, Cyrillic, Thai, Vietnamese | Has better support for historical and accented Latin characters. |
Other available Unicode fonts
Bolded fonts are recommended.
Font | Typeface | License | Format | Encoding |
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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:
- Noto Sans Adlam (direct download link), (GitHub link)
- Unifont Upper
- Ebrima (Microsoft Windows font, available in Update 1903 and later)
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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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:
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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𐄢𐄡𐄗𐄌 |
Ahom
Ahom script is a script used to write Ahom language. They are supported by the following fonts:
- Noto Serif Ahom, a font made by Google.
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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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:
- Everson Mono
- Noto Sans Old South Arabian
- Qataban
- Quivira
- Segoe UI Historic (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 10 and later)
- Unifont Upper
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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𐩠𐩭𐩵𐩼𐩥 |
Armenian
The Armenian alphabet is only used to write the Armenian language. It is supported by the following fonts:
- DejaVu
- GNU FreeSerif
- Noto Sans Armenian (direct download link), a font made by Google
- Noto Serif Armenian (direct download link), the serif version of the font made by Google
- Kelvinch Font
- Segoe UI (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 7 and later, but only supports Armenian since Windows 8)
- Sylfaen (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 2000 and later)
- Times LatArm
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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Հայաստան |
Avestan
The Avestan alphabet is used to write the Avestan language. It is supported by the following fonts:
- Ahuramazda
- Noto Sans Avestan (direct download link), (GitHub link), a font made by Google
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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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:
- Aksara Bali (free OpenType font with keyboard driver)
- Noto Sans Balinese (direct download link), (GitHub link), a font made by Google
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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:
- Noto Sans Bamum (direct download link), a font made by Google
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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ꚩꚫꛑꚩꚳ ꛆꚧꛂ |
Batak
The Batak alphabet is used to write the Batak languages. It is supported by the following fonts:
- Batak Unicode
- Noto Sans Batak (direct download link), (GitHub link), a font made by Google
- Pangururan
- Prada (direct download link)
Correct rendering | Your browser/device | Transliteration |
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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:
- Noto Sans Tagalog (direct download link) (GitHub link), a font made by Google
- Paul Morrow's Baybayin Fonts. Offers the most extensive list of Baybayin fonts for Windows and Macintosh operating systems
- Quivira is a proportional serif font that produces very readable text. Supports several scripts, among them the Baybayin script
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:
- Noto Sans Brahmi (direct download link), (GitHub link), a font made by Google
- Segoe UI Historic (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 10 and later)
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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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
QuiviraNOT RECOMMENDED FOR BUHID: It contains basic Buhid letters but not the ligatures required to correctly render many Buhid syllablesCode2000NOT 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 |
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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:
- Pyidaungsu
- Myanmar (also available from BBCs website)
- Myanmar Census
- Myanmar Text (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 8 and later)
- Noto Sans Myanmar (direct download link), (GitHub link), a font made by Google
- Padauk (supports Graphite)
- WinUni Innwa
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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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:
- Aboriginal Sans (See above)
- Code2000 (See above)
- Euphemia (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows Vista and later)
- Gadugi (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 10 Creators Update and later)
- Noto Sans Canadian Aboriginal, a font made by Google
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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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:
- Noto Sans Cham (direct download link), (GitHub link), a font made by Google
- Code2000 (See above)
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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ꨇ |
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:
- Cherokee Digohweli, from LanguageGeek
- GNU FreeFont
- Gadugi (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 8 and later)
- Noto Sans Cherokee (direct download link), a font made by Google (Also supports lowercase)
- Plantagenet Cherokee (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows Vista and later)
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:
- Gadugi (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 10 Creators Update and later)
- Noto Sans Cherokee (direct download link), a font made by Google
- Phoreus Cherokee
- Everson Mono (beta version)
Cherokee uppercase letters:
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ |
Cherokee lowercase letters:
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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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:
- Alphabetum is a commercial Unicode font, but it is the only font that provides Bohairic Coptic letters rather than Sahidic
- GNU FreeSerif
- Noto Sans Coptic (direct download link), a font made by Google
- Quivira: Provides full Unicode support for all Coptic letters
- Segoe UI Historic (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 10 and later)
- Segoe UI Symbol (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 7 and later)
- Sophia Nubian font by SIL International
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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ⲙⲛⲧⲣⲙⲛⲕⲏⲙⲉ |
Cuneiform
The cuneiform script was primarily used to write Akkadian (including Assyrian and Babylonian) and Sumerian. It is supported by the following fonts:
- Noto Sans Cuneiform (direct download link), a font made by Google
- Segoe UI Historic (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 10 and later)
- Unicode Fonts for Oracc: Cuneiform Fonts offers several different cuneiform fonts
- Unicode Cuneiform Fonts for Macintosh and Windows offers cuneiform fonts as well
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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𒅎𒀝𒂵𒌈 |
Deseret
The Deseret alphabet is an alternative alphabet for writing the English language. It is supported by the following fonts:
- "Bee" Serif fonts
- "Bee" Sans Serif fonts
- Noto Sans Deseret (direct download link), a font made by Google
- Segoe UI Symbol (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 7 and later)
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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𐐔𐐯𐑅𐐨𐑉𐐯𐐻 𐐈𐑊𐑁𐐩𐐺𐐯𐐻 |
East Asian
Script | Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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Traditional Chinese | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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:
- BabelStone Han
- Hanazono Mincho
- JIS Z 8903 Medium
- Unicode Hentaigana Font
- WadaLabMaruGo2004Emoji and WadaLabChuMaruGo2004Emoji
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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𛂛 |
Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs are supported by the following fonts:
- NewGardiner (direct download link) (Recommended for better on-screen legibility)
- Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs (direct download link), a font made by Google
- Segoe UI Historic (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 10 and later)
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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𓇋𓏏𓈖𓇳𓅜𓐍𓈖 |
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:
- Noto Sans Elbasan, a font made by Google
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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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:
- Abyssinica SIL
- Ethiopia Jiret
- Everson Mono
- Noto Sans Ethiopic (direct download link), (GitHub link), a font made by Google
- Nyala (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows Vista and later)
- TITUS Cyberbit (direct download link)
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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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:
- Cardo
- MPH 2B Damase
- Junicode, a free font mostly for Medieval scripts.
- Noto Sans Gothic (direct download link), a font made by Google
- Robert Pfeffer’s fonts: Midjungards, Pfeffer Mediæval, Silubr, Skeirs, and Ulfilas
- Segoe UI Historic (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 10 and later)
- Segoe UI Symbol (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 7 and later)
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺 |
Hanunó'o
Hanunó'o script is used to write the Hanunó'o language. It is supported to varying extents by the following fonts:
- GNU FreeFont
- Noto Sans Hanunoo (direct download link), a font made by Google
QuiviraNOT RECOMMENDED FOR HANUNÓ'O: It contains basic Hanunó'o letters but not the ligatures required to correctly render many Hanunó'o syllables
Correct rendering | Your browser/device | Sample syllables |
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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 |
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Bengali | ক + ি → কি | Wikipedia:Bangla script display help | |
Devanāgarī | क + ि → कि | Template:Devfonthelp | |
Gujarati | ક + િ → કિ | ||
Gurmukhī | ਕ + ਿ → ਕਿ | ||
Kannada | ಕ + ಿ → ಕಿ | ||
Malayalam | ക + െ → കെ | ||
Odia | କ + େ → କେ | ||
Sinhala | ඵ + ේ → ඵේ | ||
Tibetan | ར + ྐ + ྱ → རྐྱ | ||
Tamil | க + ே → கே | ||
Telugu | 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:
- Inscriptional Parthian, a font made by Google
- Segoe UI Historic (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 10 and later)
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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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:
- Noto Sans Javanese (direct download link), link), a font made by Google
- Javanese Text (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 8.1 and later)
- Tuladha Jejeg, a free SIL Graphite font
- Prada (direct download link)
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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:
- NotoSans Kaithi, (GitHub link), a font made by Google
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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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 KharosthiNOT 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 |
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𐨤𐨪𐨌𐨪𐨿𐨗𐨸𐨅𐨌𐨏 |
Khudabadi
Khudabadi, also spelled Khudawadi, or Sindhi, is a script used to write Sindhi Language. It is supported by the following fonts:
- Noto Sans Khudawadi, a font made by Google
Correct rendering | Your browser/device | Transliteration |
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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:
- Code2000
- Unifont CSUR (A part of GNU Unifont, which only supports glyphs in CSUR)
- Constructium
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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ملف:PIqaD in pIqaD.png | |
Limbu
The Limbu alphabet, used to write the Limbu language, is supported by the following fonts:
- Noto Sans Limbu, (GitHub link), a font made by Google
- Namdhinggo SIL
- Code2000
- MPH 2B Damase
- GNU Unifont
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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ᤕᤠᤰᤌᤢᤱ |
Linear A
The undeciphered Linear A script was used in ancient Greece. It is supported by the following fonts:
- Aegean
- Everson Mono
- Noto Sans Linear A, a font made by Google.
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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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:
- Noto Sans Linear B (direct download link), (GitHub link), a font made by Google
- Everson Mono
- Unifont Upper
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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𐁂𐀐𐀷 |
Lisu (Fraser alphabet)
The Fraser alphabet is used only to write the Lisu language. It is supported by the following fonts:
- DejaVu
- Miao Unicode
- Noto Sans Lisu (direct download link), a font made by Google
- Segoe UI (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 7 and later, but only supports Lisu since Windows 8)
Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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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:
- Leelawadee UI, note that Leelawadee does not support the Lontara script, only the UI version does. Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 8 and later
- MPH 2B Damase (direct download link)
- Noto Sans Buginese (direct download link), (GitHub link), a font made by Google
- Saweri
- Prada (direct download link)
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ᨅᨔ ᨕᨘᨁᨗ | Basa Ugi |
Mandaic
The Mandaic alphabet, used to write the Mandaic language and Neo-Mandaic, is supported by the following font:
- Noto Sans Mandaic (direct download link), (GitHub link), a font made by Google
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ࡀࡁࡀࡂࡀ |
Marchen
The Marchen script, is used to write the Zhang-Zhung language, is supported by the following font:
- BabelStone Marchen, a font made by Andrew West
- Noto Sans Marchen, a font made by Google
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𑲁𑲠𑱹𑲚 |
Meitei
The Meitei script, used to write the Meetei language, is supported by the following font:
- Noto Sans Meetei Mayek, a font made by Google
- Nirmala UI (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 10 and later)
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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:
- Noto Sans Mongolian (direct download link), (GitHub link), a font made by Google, but only supports horizontal rendering in some bad rendering device such as Apple.
- Code2000
- Oyun font series by Inner Mongolian University: Oyun Qagan Tig, Oyun Garqag Tig, Oyun Hawang Tig, Oyun Scnin Tig, Oyun Gar Biqimel Tig, Oyun Har_a Tig, and Oyun Gurban Ulus Tig
- Menksoft font series: Menk Qagan Tig, Menk Garqag Tig, Menk Har_a Tig, Menk Hawang Tig, and Menk Scnin Tig
- Mongolian Baiti (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 7 and later)
- Mongol Usug
- Mongolian Universal White (free font)
- Mongolian White (free font)
- MongolianScript
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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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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:
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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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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:
- BabelStone Ogham Fonts, a series of free fonts for Ogham made by Andrew West
- DejaVu
- Everson Mono
- Noto Sans Ogham (direct download link), a font made by Google
- Segoe UI Historic (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 10 and later)
- Segoe UI Symbol (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 7 and later)
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᚛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:
- Code2000
- Nirmala UI (regular and semilight)
- OLCK UNI22nd Dec03 & OLCK UNI Raghunath Murmu
- Noto Sans Ol Chiki
- Sakal Bharati
- Guru Gomke font - Guru Gomke font download
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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:
- Aegean (free font)
- Noto Sans Old Persian (direct download link), a font made by Google
- Segoe UI Historic (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 10 and later)
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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:
- Everson Mono (beta version)
- Gadugi (included in Windows 10)
- Noto Sans Osage (direct download link)
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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:
- Noto Sans Symbols2 (direct download link), a font made by Google
- Everson Mono
- Aegean
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𐇑𐇛𐇪𐇝𐇯𐇡𐇪 |
Psalter Pahlavi
Psalter Pahlavi was used for writing Middle Persian on paper. It is supported by the following font:
- Noto Sans Psalter Pahlavi, a font made by google
- Segoe UI Historic (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 10 and later)
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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:
- BabelStone Anglo-Saxon Runic fonts, a series of free font for Runes that are used in Frisian and Anglo-Saxon inscriptions from the 5th to 11th centuries, made by Andrew West.
- Junicode, a free font mostly for Medieval scripts
- Noto Sans Runic (direct download link), a font made by Google
- Segoe UI Historic (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 10 and later)
- Segoe UI Symbol (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 7 and later)
Script | Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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Elder Futhark (2nd to 8th centuries) | ᚠᚢᚦᚨᚱᚲ | |
Anglo-Saxon runes (5th to 11th centuries) | ᚠᚢᚦᚩᚱᚳ | |
Medieval runes (12th to 15th centuries) | 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:
- Noto Sans Sharada, a font made by Google
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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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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:
- Noto Sans Sora Sompeng, a font made by Google
- Nirmala UI
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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:
- Noto Sans Sundanese (direct download link), (GitHub link), a font made by Google
- Sundanese Unicode (direct download link) main download page (free font)
- Prada (direct download link)
Sutton SignWriting
Sutton SignWriting is used to write any Sign language. It is supported with the SignWriting 2010 Typeface which includes 2 TrueType fonts:
- SignWriting 2010 Fonts project on GitHub
- SignWriting 2010 TrueType Font and SignWriting 2010 Filling TrueType Font (direct downloads)
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𝧪𝪞𝪨 𝠀𝪛𝪩 𝠀𝪛𝪡 𝧪𝪤 |
Sylheti Nagari
Sylheti Nagari (Silôṭi Nagri) is an endangered script used for writing Sylheti language. It's available in those fonts:
- Noto Sans Siloti Nagari, a font made by Google
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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:
Aramaic FontsNOT RECOMMENDED FOR SYRIAC: It uses code points from other languages and thus will cause other languages to render incorrectly- Estrangelo Edessa (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows XP and later)
- Segoe UI Historic (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 10 and later)
- Meltho OpenType™ Syriac Fonts (free font)
- Noto Sans Syraic Eastern, Noto Sans Syriac Estrangela, and Noto Sans Syriac Western (direct download links). Noto fonts made by Google
Script | Correct rendering | Your browser/device |
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Maḏnḥāyā | ܒܪܹܝܼܫܝܼܬ݀ ܐܝܼܬ݂ܲܘܗ݇ܝ ܗ݇ܘܵܐ ܡܹܠܬܵ݀ܐ. | |
Serṭā | ܒ݁ܪܺܝܫܺܝܬܼ ܐܻܝܬܼܰܘܗ̱ܝ ܗ̱ܘܳܐ ܡܶܠܬܼܳܐ. | |
ʾEsṭrangēlā | 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:
- GNU FreeFont
- Microsoft Tai Le (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 7 and later)
- Noto Sans Tai Le (direct download link), (GitHub link), a font made by Google
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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:
- Noto Sans Tai Viet, (GitHub link), a font made by Google
- Tai Heritage Pro from SIL International
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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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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:
- Afus Deg Wfus
- Code2000
- DejaVu
- Ebrima (Microsoft Windows font, available in Windows 7 and later)
- Fixedsys Excelsior (a stylized ornamental font, not recommended for running text)
- Hapax Berbère
- MPH 2B Damase
- Noto Sans Tifinagh (direct download link), a font made by Google
- Tagmukay font by SIL International
- Tifinaghe-Ircam Unicode
Correct rendering | Your browser/device | Transliteration |
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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:
- Code2000
- Microsoft Yi Baiti
- Noto Sans Yi (direct download link), a font made by Google
- Nuosu SIL from SIL International
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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
- Help:Multilingual support (East Asian)
- Help:Multilingual support (Indic)
- Help:Multilingual support for Android
- Help:Special characters
- Wikipedia:Amharic
- Wikipedia:Bangla script display help
- Wikipedia:Gothic Keyboarding
- Wikipedia:Gothic Unicode Fonts
- Wikipedia:Kannada support
- Help:Sinhala Font Guide
- List of typefaces included with Microsoft Windows
References
- ^ https://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1081
- ^ https://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1263
- ^ https://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1805
- ^ https://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1599
- ^ http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/435/
- ^ http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/#text
Notes
- ^ 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.
- ^ Not to be confused with MS Sans Serif
- ^ Microsoft Windows support the ʾEsṭrangēlā variety via Estrangelo Edessa and Segoe UI. Historically, some Linux distributions supported Maḏnḥāyā variety via FreeSans.