The following tables summarise some of the information in my tutorials and guidelines by showing which scripts exhibit which characteristics. This is rather crude in its approach, and attempts to merely convey a general idea. Other pages show examples of each script illustrating most characteristics mentioned below. Type of script alphabetic consonantal syllabic semi-syllabic with vowel signs uses ideographs Korean doesn't use as many ideographs as Japanese.
Many documents have no ideographs at all.
Subsets of Latin, such as those characters for Western Europe, are typically found as a single-byte character set. B Korean may be stored as jamos and syllables created at display time. There are less than 128 jamos. It is common, however, to store and display as pre-composed syllables. For most languages, however, 'precomposed' characters already exist in the encoding.