These fonts are based on the Adobe-Japan 1-6 character collection (23,058 glyphs), which includes many glyph variants.

Kana fonts contain a subset of the Adobe-Japan 1-3 character collection and include a set of 471 hiragana and katakana glyphs. A detailed description of the Adobe-Japan 1-3 character collection is included in Adobe Tech Note #5078. It provides complete JIS X 0208 support, along with JIS78 (JIS C 6226-1978) variants and IBM Selected Kanji. The Adobe-Japan 1-3 character collection contains 9,354 glyphs, including some glyph variants. A detailed description of the Adobe-Japan 1-4 character collection is included in Adobe Tech Note #5078. Adobe-Japan 1-4 contains thousands of kanji and kana variants to provide rich typographic support. The Adobe-Japan 1-4 character collection contains 15,444 glyphs and is a super set of the Adobe-Japan 1-3 character collection. These fonts support the Big Five and Hong Kong SCS standards. Traditional Chinese is the form of ideograph used in Taiwan, Macao, and Hong Kong SAR. These fonts support the GB 18030 national standard and Tōngyòng Guīfàn Hànzìbiǎo (通用规范汉字表). Simplified Chinese is the form of ideograph used in Mainland China. For example, certain supplemental expert set fonts may only contain specific glyphs such as small capitals, swashes or alternate letter forms, while certain display fonts may omit a few accented characters. These fonts may contain a subset of the entire standard Adobe Western 2 character range and may support a limited number of languages.

Fonts that include a Cyrillic character set support the following languages: Balkar, Belarusian (Cyrillic), Bulgarian, Erzya, Karachay, Kumyk, Macedonian, Moksha, Nanai, Nivkh, Nogai, Russian, Rusyn, Selkup, Serbian (Cyrillic), and Ukrainian.įonts with Cyrillic Extended character set include characters necessary to support all of the languages listed for Cyrillic and the following languages: Abaza, Adyghe, Agul, Avar, Buryat, Chechen, Crimean Tatar (Cyrillic), Dargin, Dungan, Ingush, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Khinalugh, Kyrgyz (Cyrillic), Lak, Lezgian, Mongolian (Cyrillic), Rutul, Tabasaran, Tajik, Tat, Tatar, Turkmen, Tuvan, and Uzbek (Cyrillic).įonts with a Latin Extended character set include additional Latin characters beyond the combined Adobe Western 2 and Adobe CE character sets to support languages like Welsh, archaic Danish, and Esperanto.Ĭertain fonts contain additional non-alphabetic characters not in standard character sets, such as bullets, ornaments, symbols, flourishes, icons, and border elements.

The Cyrillic alphabet was reformed by Peter the Great in Russia in the early eighteenth century. Fonts with a Greek character set include the characters and punctuation required to support the modern Greek language.įonts that support Polytonic Greek include additional archaic Greek characters that are useful when setting historical or Biblical texts in Greek language. The Greek alphabet is one of the oldest known writing systems, having been adapted from the Phoenician alphabet about 3,000 years ago. This is the standard character set in most PostScript Type 1 fonts from Adobe.įonts with an Adobe CE character set also include the characters necessary to support the following central European languages: Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, and Turkish. Adobe Western 2 is the new minimum character set standard implemented in OpenType fonts from Adobe.įonts with an ISO-Adobe character set support most western languages including: Afrikaans, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Sami, Spanish, Swahili, and Swedish. Adobe Western 2 also adds 17 more symbol characters: euro, liter, estimated, omega, pi, partialdiff, delta, product, summation, radical, infinity, integral, approxequal, notequal, lessequal, greater equal, and lozenge. Fonts with an Adobe Western 2 character set support most western languages including: Afrikaans, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Sami, Spanish, Swahili, and Swedish.

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