User Guide

Editing Fonts
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Unicode Ranges
In Unicode the standard character space (indexes 0 — 65,535) is divided
into ranges. Each range typically covers characters that belong to one
alphabet or have common properties, like the Cyrillic range or the Hebrew
or the Extended Latin.
Ranges may be of various lengths — from a few characters to several
thousand characters (in the case of Kanji characters).
In FontLab you can select any Unicode range and view your font as
organized by the range. All characters with Unicode indexes in the selected
range will be arranged in order in the yellow zone at the top of the Font
window.
In order to simplify working with Unicode ranges in FontLab all the
“official” ranges in the Unicode standard are subdivided into subranges.
You can work with the whole range or select one of the subranges. For
example, you can select the whole Cyrillic range that includes all currently
used and historic Cyrillic characters, or you can select just the historic
letters or only the Russian alphabet.