Latin Extended-G is a
Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ...
containing additional characters for
phonetic transcription
Phonetic transcription (also known as Phonetic script or Phonetic notation) is the visual representation of speech sounds (or ''phonetics'') by means of symbols. The most common type of phonetic transcription uses a phonetic alphabet, such as the ...
. The
Latin Extended-F
Latin Extended-F is a Unicode block containing modifier letters, nearly all IPA and extIPA, for phonetic transcription. The Latin Extended-F and -G blocks contain the first Latin characters defined outside of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). ...
and -G blocks contain the first Latin characters defined outside of the
Basic Multilingual Plane
In the Unicode standard, a plane is a contiguous group of 65,536 (216) code points. There are 17 planes, identified by the numbers 0 to 16, which corresponds with the possible values 00–1016 of the first two positions in six position hexadecimal ...
(BMP).
As of 2023, only a few fonts support this block. Ones that are free include
Gentium,
Andika,
Symbola and
Unifont.
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Latin Extended-G block:
External links
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Wiktionary:Appendix:Unicode/Latin Extended-G
References
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Latin-script Unicode blocks
Unicode blocks