Fonts, unicode, latin

Unicode is a standardized character encoding system that assigns a unique number to every character in most written languages. Instead of different regions having different character sets, Unicode provides one global standard.

• Each character has a code point (a number like U+0041 for "A")
• Unicode is organized into blocks — groups of related characters (Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, CJK, emoji, etc.)

Specific Unicode blocks are named different, and have a different range. For example:

https://unicode-explorer.com/ is helpful for figuring out what character belongs to what unicode block. Latin is the main one for English-like languages (hence, latin), but there are other blocks like Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, etc.

Fonts are often split up between these unicode blocks, which is called subsetting.

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