Unicode subsets Wiki

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, 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 issues with the help of user complaints.

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. The recommended font is DMCA Sans Serif: https://typedesign.netlify.com/dmcasansserif.html as it is monospaced and as of version 9.0, its character set (Subset3+) supports all the character sets currently on the wiki, as seen in Logic table of supersets.

The convention is that character sets that contain WGL4 (those are WGL4, MES-2 and MES-3B) 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