Help talk:Multilingual support

Fonts aren't displayed correctly

I do have Noto fonts installed for several scripts (Psalter Pahlavi, Linear A and B), but the characters nevertheless aren't rendered correctly when I view Wikipedia articles with any browser. I get empty squares instead. The characters do appear correctly in Word, for example (although Segoe UI Historic doesn't really display the Psalter Pahlavi characters in Word either, contrary to what the page suggests). Any ideas as to what the problem could be? 62.73.69.121 (talk) 07:40, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

I have the same problem. Empty squares instead Psalter Pahlavi fonts, although I have installed all the recommended fonts. What to do else? Саша из Киева (talk) 16:34, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

It displays OK for me with the SansSerifCollection.ttf font file. Unfortunately I have no idea where this font came from or if it's part of Windows 11. DRMcCreedy (talk) 03:52, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

I have a question.

I have found a font that supports the following scripts listed on this page: Armenian, Deseret, Gothic, Kaktovik Numerals, Lisu, Shavian. The font's name is Lentariso, and it can be found on Github. I was wondering if it would be possible to add the font to the lists? GeniusWorkbench4622 20:08, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

A decorative font with many unusual letterforms doesn't sound like a useful addition to this page in general in my opinion. With the possible exception of Kaktovik numerals, there are many better fonts to recommend to someone who were to see tofu otherwise. – MwGamera (talk) 13:19, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

The flipped Phaistos disc

I can't remember exactly which fonts did I installed to display the Phaistos disc, but atleast one of them will display all the characters flipped horizontally instead of the correct render. Someone better fix it. Mucksrunt (talk) 07:27, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

promoting a broad use case font

i feel unifont should get a shoutout for being good at what it does despite being ugly as sin (lol). theres also the last resort that tries to turn 'tofu' into info FONZACUS (talk) 08:49, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

Khitan script

The Khitan small script was added to Unicode version 13.0 in March 2020. 175.210.253.70 (talk) 05:22, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

Fonts

I did a large update in this article. Although the fonts Unifont and Unifont Upper can support a lot of characters, the ligatures and combining forms are not available in some cases. For example the Indian languages. MarcoToa1 (talk) 13:42, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

However, Cuneiform and other large scripts will be created in a 32*32 Grid (1024 pixels) in the future. MarcoToa1 (talk) 13:43, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

Noto Sans Kharosthi

According to Wiki, the diacritic marks and accents are not placed correctly and also it doesn't offer any ligatures. Segoe UI Historic does. Because Mac supports partial Noto Fonts, my computer is not rendered correctly unless I use the Microsoft font.

𐨣 𐨐𐨨𐨤𐨁 𐨗𐨣𐨎 𐨡𐨌𐨯𐨟𐨿𐨬𐨅𐨣 𐨤𐨪𐨌𐨢𐨁𐨌𐨣𐨟𐨿𐨬𐨅𐨣 𐨬𐨌 𐨢𐨌𐨪𐨩𐨁𐨟𐨂𐨎 𐨀𐨣𐨂𐨗𐨿𐨙𐨌𐨯𐨿𐨩𐨟𐨅𐩖 𐨀𐨤𐨁 𐨕 𐨡𐨌𐨯𐨬𐨿𐨩𐨌𐨤𐨌𐨪𐨏 𐨤𐨂𐨌𐨪𐨿𐨞𐨪𐨂𐨌𐨤𐨅𐨞 𐨤𐨿𐨪𐨟𐨁𐨮𐨁𐨡𐨿𐨢𐨏 It looks extremely messy MarcoToa1 (talk) 23:16, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

Segoe offers a lot of ligatures in the Historic font. MarcoToa1 (talk) 23:18, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

Segoe can also support many archaic, historic or large scripts such as Cuneiform (New version (V1.07) MarcoToa1 (talk) 23:19, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

Does anyone know if there is a similar font for Linux by any chance? I cannot get Segoe UI Historic on Linux, so Kharoshthi looks messy for me also Ilyamurom (talk) 15:08, 10 July 2026 (UTC)