Are there any well-defined UCS subsets?
With over 40000 characters, a full and complete Unicode implementation is an enormous project. However, it is often sufficient (especially for the European market) to implement only a few hundred or thousand characters as before and still enjoy the simplicity of reaching all required characters in just one single simple encoding via Unicode. A number of different UCS subsets already have been established: • The Windows Glyph List 4.0 (WGL4) is a set of 650 characters that covers all the 8-bit MS-DOS, Windows, Mac, and ISO code pages that Microsoft had used before. All Windows fonts now cover at least the WGL4 repertoire. WGL4 is a superset of CEN MES-1. (WGL4 test file). • Three European UCS subsets MES-1, MES-2, and MES-3 have been defined by the European standards committee CEN/TC304 in CWA 13873: • MES-1 is a very small Latin subset with only 335 characters. It contains exactly all characters found in ISO 6937 plus the EURO SIGN. This means MES-1 contains all characters of ISO 8859
With over 40000 characters, a full and complete Unicode implementation is an enormous project. However, it is often sufficient (especially for the European market) to implement only a few hundred or thousand characters as before and still enjoy the simplicity of reaching all required characters in just one single simple encoding via Unicode. A number of different UCS subsets already have been established: • The Windows Glyph List 4.0 (WGL4) is a set of 650 characters that covers all the 8-bit MS-DOS, Windows, Mac, and ISO code pages that Microsoft had used before. All Windows fonts now cover at least the WGL4 repertoire. WGL4 is a superset of CEN MES-1. (WGL4 test file). • Three European UCS subsets MES-1, MES-2, and MES-3 have been defined by the European standards committee CEN/TC304 in CWA 13873: • MES-1 is a very small Latin subset with only 335 characters. It contains exactly all characters found in ISO 6937 plus the EURO SIGN. This means MES-1 contains all characters of ISO 8859
With over 40000 characters, a full and complete Unicode implementation is an enormous project. However, it is often sufficient (especially for the European market) to implement only a few hundred or thousand characters as before and still enjoy the simplicity of reaching all required characters in just one single simple encoding via Unicode. A number of different UCS subsets have already been established: • The Windows Glyph List 4.0 (WGL4) is a set of 650 characters that covers all the 8-bit MS-DOS, Windows, Mac, and ISO code pages that Microsoft had used before. All Windows fonts now cover at least the WGL4 repertoire. WGL4 is a superset of CEN MES-1. (WGL4 test file). • Three European UCS subsets MES-1, MES-2, and MES-3 have been defined by the European standards committee CEN/TC304 in CWA 13873: • MES-1 is a very small Latin subset with only 335 characters. It contains exactly all characters found in ISO 6937 plus the EURO SIGN. This means MES-1 contains all characters of ISO 8859
