The world glyph sets are character

Character (computing)

In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language....

 repertoires comprising a subset of Unicode

Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...

 characters. Their purpose is to provide an implementation guideline for producers of fonts for the representation of natural language

Natural language

In the philosophy of language, a natural language is any language which arises in an unpremeditated fashion as the result of the innate facility for language possessed by the human intellect. A natural language is typically used for communication, and may be spoken, signed, or written...

s. Unlike Windows Glyph List 4

Windows Glyph List 4

Windows Glyph List 4, or more commonly WGL4 for short, also known as the Pan-European character set, is a character repertoire on recent Microsoft operating systems comprising 652 Unicode characters...

 (WGL) it is specified by font foundries and not by operating system manufacturers. It is, however, very similar in glyph coverage to WGL4, but neither is a full subset of the other.

Digital fonts for the European and American market have traditionally often been sold in a standard (“Std“) package for western languages and additional separate files to cover central (“CE”), eastern (“Baltic”) and southern (“Turk”) European languages in the Roman script and sometimes also packages to support for the Greek (monotonic) and Cyrillic scripts. With the advent of the Open Type format, which supports Unicode, all characters could be included in a single font file. The font foundries continue to sell packages with differing glyph coverage where the basic one hardly covers more than Windows 1252. They introduced certain variants like Professional (“Pro”) which supports all major languages written with Latin letters, Commercial( “Com”) for international communication in office use, such as those covering Linotype Extended European Characterset (LEEC) or, adding Greek and Cyrillic, WGL or world glyph sets.

Character table

W1G character table

U+	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
0020		!	"	#	$	%	&	'	(	)	*
,
.	/
0030	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	:	;	<	=	>	?
0040	@	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O
0050	P	Q	R	S	T	U	V	W	X	Y	Z	[	\	]	^	_
0060	`	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l	m	n	o
0070	p	q	r	s	t	u	v	w	x	y	z	{

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