Character Requirements for different regions (Latin)

SIL’s Writing Systems Technology group has created very comprehensive fonts for Latin character sets. These are very large fonts that cover just about every need we know about in the Latin world. Now, as we move into the age of mobile phone and web usage, everyone wants fonts that are small and compact. Our fonts are over a megabyte each and that is considered way too big for mobile phone usage.

The following subsets have been developed in an effort to assist font developers in developing fonts for specific regions.

• Character Requirements for African Orthographies
• Character Requirements for American Orthographies
• Character Requirements for Asia and Pacific Orthographies
• Character Requirements for Europe/Eurasian Orthographies
• Character Requirements for a Vietnamese font
• Character Requirements for Phonetics and Transliteration

This article formerly appeared on ScriptSource.