Windows Glyph List 4, or more commonly WGL4 for short, also known as the ''Pan-European character set'', is a character repertoire on

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comprising 657

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characters, two of them for private use. Its purpose is to provide an implementation guideline for producers of fonts for the representation of European

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s; fonts that provide

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s 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

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. 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

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, encompasses all the characters found in

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s 1252 (''Windows Western''), 1250 (''Windows Central European''), 1251 (''Windows Cyrillic''), 1253 (''Windows Greek''), 1254 (''Windows Turkish''), and 1257 (''Windows Baltic''), as well as characters from DOS

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. 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

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, or the ideographic characters used by code pages

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, 936, 949 and

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. 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

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(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

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(identical to

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printable characters) , - !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, , C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement The Latin-1 Supplement (also called C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement) is the second Unicode block in the Unicode standard. It encodes the upper range of ISO 8859-1: 80 (U+0080) – FF (U+00FF). C1 Controls (0080–009F) are not graphic. T ...

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Character table

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