Unicode Subsets Wiki

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Welcome to the . This wiki is all about Unicode subsets. The character set data must be exact and strictly defined. The character sets are very useful for creating fonts. For font designers: Start with Subset1 for the essentials. Those are quite necessary, and even more so if the font is monospaced (due to CP437 and related), so the bigger set of Subset1 is a better first release option than VSECS, let alone CP1252. Then in one major update jump to Subset2 coverage, and keep focusing the potential glyph improvements on Subset1. Then in one major update jump to Subset3 or Subset3+ coverage and fix design flaws with the help of community criticism.
To view this wiki properly, you must uninstall all but one font (or prevent font substituting), and have the font properly support all characters, and prevent characters from displaying as emojis. For instance, a formerly recommended font was DMCA Sans Serif: https://typedesigndead.coosucks.repl.co/ as it is monospaced and as of version 9.0, its character set (Subset3+) used to support all the character sets on the wiki, as seen in Logic table of supersets, until LPTT-1 and its successors came up. Custom Font ttf is monospaced and has a development of 5.0 (what will become Subset5 in the future, but not complete yet). TD bitmaps 1.5 is monospaced and contains Subset2. Moshita Mono is monospaced and has been recommended for the general purpose, and Kissinger is duospaced and has wide coverage of Unicode. Fifaks is monospaced but it is better to use Custom Font ttf 12h instead. Do not use Fairfax or Unifont, as they are unethical, and Fifaks and Kissinger respectively are ethical. Contact piotrunio-2004@wp.pl for more details.
The convention is that character sets that are intended contain WGL4 (including WGL4, MES-2 and MES-3B, Subset1 and up, etc.) also contain the two private use characters that are included in their count.
All character set pages
Other links:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/ — a directory of the creator of VSECS and SECS
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