With 16-bits allowing for 2 16 = 65,536 code points, the 7,129 characters of Unicode 1.0 fit easily, but by the time Unicode 3.1 rolled around in 2001, Unicode contained no less than 94,140 ...

That’s because of the issue above: Unicode is comprehensive while fonts’ character sets are finite. A digital font typically includes only the characters needed to represent one or more scripts.

The Unicode Consortium has finalized and released version 16.0 of the Unicode standard, the elaborate character set that ensures that our phones, tablets, PCs, and other devices can all ...