Writing Systems and Fonts

Writing Systems (Scripts)

In case you see any small boxes ▯ ("tofu character") in the Sample column, you are missing corresponding fonts for that writing system. Please refer to the Unicode Fonts section below.

ISO 15924 Code	Script	Sample	Is RTL?	Languages
Arab	Arabic	العربية	✓	Arabic, Kurdish (Central), Persian, Dari, Pashto, Sindhi, Uyghur, Urdu
Armn	Armenian	հայերեն		Armenian
Beng	Bengali	বাঙালি		Assamese, Bengali
Cans	Canadian Aboriginal syllabics	ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ		Inuktitut
Cher	Cherokee	ᏣᎳᎩ		Cherokee
Cyrl	Cyrillic	кириллица		Bashkir, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chuvash, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Eastern Mari, Macedonian, Mongolian, Hill Mari, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Tajik, Tatar, Udmurt, Ukrainian
Deva	Devanagari (Nagari)	देवनागरी		Bhojpuri, Dogri, Konkani, Hindi, Maithili, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit
Ethi	Ethiopic (Geʻez)	ግዕዝ		Amharic, Tigrinya
Geor	Georgian (Mkhedruli)	ქართული		Georgian
Grek	Greek	ελληνικά		Greek
Gujr	Gujarati	ગુજરાતી		Gujarati
Guru	Gurmukhi	ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ ਦੇ		Punjabi
Hans	Han (Simplified)	汉字		Chinese (Simplified)
Hant	Han (Traditional)	漢字		Chinese (Traditional)
Hebr	Hebrew	עברית	✓	Hebrew, Yiddish
Japn	Japanese (Han + Hiragana + Katakana)	カタカナ		Japanese
Khmr	Khmer	ខ្មែរ		Khmer
Knda	Kannada	ಕನ್ನಡ		Kannada
Kore	Korean (Hangul + Han)	한글		Korean
Laoo	Lao	ລາວ		Lao
Latn	Latin	Latin		Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Guarani, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Interlingue, Irish, Italian, Javanese, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Maori, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Samoan, Scottish Gaelic, Sesotho, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Turkmen, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapük, Welsh, Western Frisian, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu
Mlym	Malayalam	മലയാളം		Malayalam
Mong	Mongolian	ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ		Mongolian (Traditional)
Mtei	Meitei	ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ		Meiteilon
Mymr	Myanmar	မြန်မာ		Myanmar
Orya	Oriya	ଉତ୍କଳ ଲିପି		Oriya
Sinh	Sinhala	සිංහල		Sinhala
Taml	Tamil	தமிழ்		Tamil
Telu	Telugu	తెలుగు		Telugu
Thaa	Thaana	ތާނަ	✓	Dhivehi
Thai	Thai	ไทย		Thai
Tibt	Tibetan	དབུ་ཅན་		Tibetan, Dzongkha

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15924

Unicode Fonts

The following list includes only fonts with a free / open license.

Font Family	Major Coverage	Scripts
Google Noto Fonts	Pan-Unicode	Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Cherokee, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Kannada, Khmer, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Myanmar, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, CJK
GNU FreeFont	Pan-Unicode	Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Cherokee, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Latin, Malayalam, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil, Thai
GNU Unifont	Pan-Unicode	Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Cherokee, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Kannada, Khmer, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Myanmar, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, CJK
DejaVu	Western	Arabic, Armenian, Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Latin
Droid	Western	Cyrillic, Greek, Latin, CJK
Linux Libertine	Western	Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin
Ubuntu Font Family	Western	Cyrillic, Greek, Latin
文泉驿 (WenQuanYi)	CJK	Chinese
IPA明朝 (IPA Minchō)	CJK	Japanese
花園明朝 (Hanazono)	CJK	Japanese
백묵글꼴 (baekmuk)	CJK	Korean
KhmerOS Fonts	Khmer	Khmer
Lao UNICODE font	Lao	Lao
Myanmar3	Myanmar	Myanmar
Fonts-TLWG	Thai	Thai