: Which web font supports all languages? I have a site which has fonts of all languages but most of the fonts don't support most of the languages other than English. Is there any font that

@Looi9037786

Is there any font that supports all the languages?


Unicode is the unified table of characters. Some first characters are latin literals (font subsets: latin and latin extended), then come other language literals and non-language signs, like pictograms. Each language has its own table segment.

How many languages supports a font is depending from how many font subsets and characters are created by the font designer.

The font containing the most characters (65.535) and supports all languages is Noto.

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@Ravi8258870

Most fonts support most human languages.

The problem with that page is that the text is encoded using UTF-8 but the page claims it is encoded using windows-1252.

Browsers are therefore following the wrong rules to work out what characters the 1s and 0s that make up the underlying HTML source mean.

When I override the encoding in my browser preferences and force it to parse as UTF-8, the text displays correctly (at least I assume it does, I don't understand the language).

Further reading:


Character encodings: Essential concepts
Character encodings
Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS (tutorial)
UTF-8 all the way through

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