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Support for OpenType OS/2 character ranges

For historical reasons, TrueType classifies Unicode ranges according to an extension of the old OS/2 character ranges. This table shows how many characters FontForge finds in each of the ranges for each font.

OS/2 character ranges vs. FreeFont faces

OS/2 character range	range total		Srf		Srf I		Srf B		Srf BI		Sans		Sans O		Sans B		Sans BO		Mono		Mono O		Mono B		Mono BO
Basic Latin	95		95	•	95	•	95	•	95	•	95	•	95	•	95	•	95	•	95	•	95	•	95	•	95	•
Latin-1 Supplement	96		96	•	96	•	96	•	96	•	96	•	96	•	96	•	96	•	96	•	96	•	96	•	96	•
Latin Extended-A	128		128	•	128	•	128	•	128	•	128	•	128	•	128	•	128	•	128	•	128	•	128	•	128	•
Latin Extended-B	208		208	•	208	•	208	•	208	•	174	•	174	•	174	•	174	•	177	•	177	•	177	•	177	•
IPA and Phoetic Extensions	288		115	•	96	•	73	•	28	•	96	•	67	•	66	•	64	•	96	•	78	•	67	•	67	•
Spacing Modifier Letters	112		80	•	80	•	27	•	26	•	80	•	80	•	16	•	12	•	80	•	80	•	80	•	11	•
Combining Diacritical Marks	112		112	•	112	•	84	•	84	•	112	•	17	•	24	•	16	•	36	•	24	•	25	•	15	•
Greek and Coptic	134		110	•	110	•	110	•	110	•	86	•	86	•	86	•	76	•	89	•	89	•	89	•	89	•
Coptic	128
Cyrillic	420		288	•	220	•	225	•	213	•	206	•	193	•	199	•	193	•	209	•	203	•	161	•	160	•
Armenian	86										86	•	86	•	86	•			86	•	86	•
Hebrew	87		44	•	43	•	82	•	32	•	52	•	52	•	52	•	52	•	52	•	52	•	52	•	52	•
Vai	320
Arabic (+supplement)	251		67	•
	64
Devanagari	112		93	•	2	•					107	•
Bengali	91		91	•	91	•					91	•	91	•
Gurmukhi	79		79	•							77	•			77	•
Gujarati	83										79	•
Oriya	84
Tamil	73		49	•							48	•
Telugu	94
Kannada	86
Malayalam	95		79	•
Thai	87		87	•	87	•
Lao	128
Georgian (+supplement)	93		76	•	76	•	76	•	76	•	71	•	71	•	71	•	71	•	38	•	38	•	38	•	38	•
Balinese	128
Hangul Jamo	256
Latin Extended (Additional,C,D)	304		246	•	246	•	246	•	246	•	246	•	246	•	246	•			246	•	246	•	246	•
Greek Extended	233		233	•	233	•	233	•	233	•	233	•	233	•	233	•	227	•	233	•	233	•
General Punctuation (+suppl)	225		98	•	97	•	98	•	98	•	98	•	97	•	97	•	97	•	97	•	71	•	66	•	66	•
Superscripts and Subscripts	34		34	•	30	•	22	•	23	•	34	•	23	•	34	•	34	•	34	•	23	•	28	•	22	•
Currency Symbols	22		22	•	20	•	20	•	20	•	20	•	5	•	3	•	3	•	20	•	6	•	5	•	3	•
Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols	33		30	•							25	•							10	•
Letterlike Symbols	80		65	•	34	•	43	•	34	•	39	•	25	•	24	•	24	•	41	•	41	•	26	•	26	•
Number Forms	54		45	•	45	•	45	•	45	•	45	•	45	•	45	•	45	•	45	•	45	•	32	•	32	•
Arrows (+suppl)	512		85	•	4	•	77	•	34	•	30	•	6	•	30	•	30	•	79	•	11	•	4	•	4	•
Mathematical Operators	684		272	•	16	•	184	•	10	•	121	•	11	•	13	•	10	•	174	•	37	•	30	•	21	•
Miscellaneous Technical	232		54	•	2	•	10	•			24	•							128	•	2	•	3	•
Control Pictures	39		1	•	1	•	1	•	1	•	2	•	1	•	1	•	1	•	1	•	1	•	1	•	1	•
Optical Character Recognition	32
Enclosed Alphanumerics	160		10	•							10	•
Box Drawing	128		116	•			105	•			105	•							128	•			128	•
Block Elements	32		29	•			31	•			32	•							32	•			22	•
Geometric Shapes	96		93	•	1	•	19	•	1	•	13	•	1	•	1	•	1	•	96	•	1	•	74	•	1	•
Miscellaneous Symbols	194		110	•	15	•	17	•	15	•	16	•	15	•	16	•	15	•	81	•	15	•	29	•	15	•
Dingbats	174		174	•							1	•			1	•
CJK Symbols and Punctuation	64
Hiragana	96
Katakana	96
Bopomofo	48
Hangul Compatibility Jamo	96
CJK Miscellaneous	16
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months	256
CJK Compatibility	256
Hangul	2350
Non-Plane 0	2048			•		•		•		•		•
Phoenician	32
CJK Unified Ideographs	20992
Private Use Area	4352		1342		445		1		1		922	•	466
CJK Compatibility Ideographs	512
Alphabetic Presentation Forms	58		38	•	6	•	44	•	6	•	52	•	46	•	46	•	46	•	52	•	49	•	3	•	3	•
Arabic Presentation Forms-A	595		20	•
Combining Half Marks	16
CJK Compatibility Forms	48
Small Form Variants	26
Arabic Presentation Forms-B	141		132	•
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms	240
Specials	5		1	•	1	•	1	•	1	•	1	•	1	•	1	•	1	•	1	•	1	•	1	•	1	•
Tibetan	256
Syriac	77										71	•
Thaana	50		49	•
Sinhala	128		56	•
Myanmar	160
Ethiopic (+supplement, extended)	306		174	•
Cherokee	85
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics	223
Ogham	32
Runic	82																		81	•
Khmer (+symbols)	160
Mongolian	176
Braille Patterns	256																		256	•
Yi Syllables, Radicals	304
Tagalog Hanunoo Buhid Tagbanwa	100		22	•
Old Italic	33
Gothic	27
Deseret	80
Byzantine & Western Musical Symbols	548
Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols	256
Private Use (plane 15,16)	69628
Variation Selectors (+suppl)	256
Tags	496
Limbu	80
Tai Le	35		35
New Tai Lue	96
Buginese	32		30
Glagolitic	96
Tifinagh	80
Ying Hexagram Symbols	64
Syloti Nagri	48
Linear B Syllabary etc	320
Ancient Greek Numbers	80		5		5		5		5
Ugaritic	31										31
Old Persian	51										50
Shavian	48
Osmanya	48
Cypriot Syllabary	64
Kharoshthi	96
Tai Xuan Jing Symbols	96
Cuneiform (+numbers)	1152
Counting Rod Numerals	32
Sundanese	64
Lepcha	80
Ol Chiki	48
Saurashtra	96
Kayah Li	48
Reiang	48
Cham	96
Ancient Symbols	64
Phaistos Disc	48
Carian, Lycian, Lydian	128
Domino and Mahjong Tiles	160

Ranges for which (FontForge reports that) the font's OS/2 support bit is set are marked with a bullet.

For many ranges, I took the liberty of reducing the set of characters considered to the ones listed for the range in the current Unicode charts, so the number of characters is less than the width of the range.

Note that there is a discrepancy in the Greek Symbols, Hebrew Extended and Arabic Extended ranges, between what FontForge reports here and in its Font Info window under OS/2 Character Ranges. I don't know why, but these ranges are also not well defined in the TrueType standard.

Note the two characters from Devanagri. These are the danda and double-danda used by other Inidic scripts.

The ranges beyond Unicode point 0xFFFF, are shaded.

Generated by ranges.py on 10:05:59 AM 09/03/2008 CEST.