Windows Glyph List 4, or more commonly WGL4 for short, also known as the Pan-European character set, is a character repertoire on Microsoft operating systems comprising 657 Unicode characters, two of them for private use. Its purpose is to provide an implementation guideline for producers of fonts for the representation of European natural languages; fonts that provide glyphs for the entire set of characters can claim WGL4 compliance and thus can expect to be compatible with a wide range of software.

, WGL4 characters were the only ones guaranteed to display correctly on Microsoft Windows. More recent versions of Windows display far more glyphs.

Because many fonts are designed to fulfill the WGL4 set, this set of characters is likely to work (display as other than replacement glyphs) on many computer systems. For example, all the non-private-use characters in the table below are likely to display properly, compared to the many missing characters that may be seen in other articles about Unicode.

Repertoire The repertoire, defined by Microsoft, encompasses all the characters found in Windows code pages 1252 (Windows Western), 1250 (Windows Central European), 1251 (Windows Cyrillic), 1253 (Windows Greek), 1254 (Windows Turkish), and 1257 (Windows Baltic). The characters in DOS code page 437 are also all included, but eighteen of them are optional.

It does not cover the combining diacritics used by Vietnamese-related code page 1258, the Thai letters used in code page 874, Hebrew and Arabic letters covered by code pages 1255 and 1256, or the ideographic characters used by code pages 932, 936, 949 and 950.

It also does not cover the Romanian letters Ș, ș, Ț, and ț (U+0218–B), which were added to several of Microsoft's fonts for Windows Vista (long after the WGL4 repertoire was originally defined).

In version 1.5 of the OpenType Specification (May 2008) four Cyrillic characters were added to the WGL4 character set: Ѐ (U+0400), Ѝ (U+040D), ѐ (U+0450) and ѝ (U+045D).

Character table U+0123456789ABCDEFBlock0020 !"#$%&'()*+,-./C0 Controls and Basic Latin(identical to ASCII printable characters)00300123456789:;<=>?0040@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO0050PQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_0060`abcdefghijklmno0070pqrstuvwxyz&lbrace;|}~ C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement(identical to ISO/IEC 8859-1)00A0 ¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª«¬-®¯00B0°±²³´µ¶·¸¹º»¼½¾¿00C0ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏ00D0ÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞß00E0àáâãäåæçèéêëìíîï00F0ðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿ0100ĀāĂ㥹ĆćĈĉĊċČčĎďLatin Extended-A0110ĐđĒēĔĕĖėĘęĚěĜĝĞğ0120ĠġĢģĤĥĦħĨĩĪīĬĭĮį0130İıIJijĴĵĶķĸĹĺĻļĽľĿ0140ŀŁłŃńŅņŇňʼnŊŋŌōŎŏ0150ŐőŒœŔŕŖŗŘřŚśŜŝŞş0160ŠšŢţŤťŦŧŨũŪūŬŭŮů0170ŰűŲųŴŵŶŷŸŹźŻżŽžſLatin Extended-B0190 ƒ  01F0 ǺǻǼǽǾǿ02C0 ˆˇ ˉ Spacing Modifier Letters02D0 ˘˙˚˛˜˝ 0380 ΄΅Ά·ΈΉΊ Ό ΎΏGreek0390ΐΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟ03A0ΠΡ ΣΤΥΦΧΨΩΪΫάέήί03B0ΰαβγδεζηθικλμνξο03C0πρςστυφχψωϊϋόύώ  0400ЀЁЂЃЄЅІЇЈЉЊЋЌЍЎЏCyrillic0410АБВГДЕЖЗИЙКЛМНОП0420РСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ0430абвгдежзийклмноп0440рстуфхцчшщъыьэюя0450ѐёђѓєѕіїјљњћќѝўџ 0490Ґґ  1E80ẀẁẂẃẄẅ Latin Extended Additional 1EF0 Ỳỳ  2010 –—― ‗‘’‚‛“”„ General Punctuation2020†‡• … 2030‰ ′″ ‹› ‼ ‾ 2040 ⁄  2070 ⁿSuper/Subscripts 20A0 ₣₤ ₧ € Currency Symbols 2100 ℅ Letterlike symbols2110 ℓ № 2120 ™ Ω ℮  2150 ⅛⅜⅝⅞ Number Forms 2190←↑→↓↔↕ Arrows21A0 ↨  2200 ∂ ∆ ∏Mathematical Operators2210 ∑− ∕ ∙√ ∞∟2220 ∩ ∫  2240 ≈  2260≠≡ ≤≥  2300 ⌂ Miscellaneous Technical2310⌐ 2320⌠⌡  2500─ │ ┌ Box-drawing characters2510┐ └ ┘ ├ 2520 ┤ ┬ 2530 ┴ ┼  2550═║╒╓╔╕╖╗╘╙╚╛╜╝╞╟2560╠╡╢╣╤╥╦╧╨╩╪╫╬  2580▀ ▄ █ ▌ Block Elements2590▐░▒▓ 25A0■□ ▪▫▬ Geometric Shapes25B0 ▲ ► ▼ 25C0 ◄ ◊○ ●25D0 ◘◙ 25E0 ◦ Miscellaneous Symbols2630 ☺☻☼ 2640♀ ♂  2660♠ ♣ ♥♦ ♪♫  F000  Private Use Area FB00 fifl Alphabetic Presentation Forms U+0123456789ABCDEFBlock

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See also Adobe Glyph List World Glyph Set (W1G) Multilingual European Subsets MES-1 and MES-2 DIN 91379 Unicode subset for Europe OpenType: WGL4 was an appendix of the OpenType specification until 1.8.4 in November 2020

References

External links

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.3.0?topic=collection-worldtype-fonts