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+---
+title: Charis SIL - Character Set Support
+fontversion: 6.001
+---
+
+This font supports over 2,300 characters from [The Unicode Standard](https://unicode.org/) as well as a number of [Private Use Area (PUA)](https://scripts.sil.org/SILPUAassignments) characters. In total, over 3,500 glyphs are included, supporting stylistic alternates for a number of characters as well as a large number of ligated sequences (e.g., contour tone letters used in phonetic transcription of tonal languages).
+
+## Supported characters
+
+The following character ranges are supported by this font:
+
+Unicode block | Charis SIL support
+------------- | ---------------
+C0 Controls and Basic Latin|U+0020..U+007E
+C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement|U+00A0..U+00FF
+Latin Extended-A|U+0100..U+0148, U+014A..U+017F
+Latin Extended-B|U+0180..U+024F
+IPA Extensions|U+0250..U+02AF
+Spacing Modifier Letters|U+02B0..U+02FF
+Combining Diacritical Marks|U+0300..U+0320, U+0323..U+033F, U+0346..U+036F
+Greek and Coptic|U+0387, U+0393..U+0394, U+0398, U+039E, U+03A0, U+03A8..U+03A9, U+03B1..U+03B4, U+03B8, U+03BB..U+03BC, U+03C0..U+03C1, U+03C3, U+03C6..U+03C7, U+03C9, U+03D1, U+03F4
+Cyrillic|U+0400..U+045F, U+0462..U+0463, U+0472..U+0475, U+048A..U+04FF
+Cyrillic Supplementary|U+0500..U+052F
+Combining Diacritical Marks Extended|U+1AB0..U+1ABA
+Phonetic Extensions|U+1D00..U+1D7F
+Phonetic Extensions Supplement|U+1D80..U+1DBF
+Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement|U+1DC2, U+1DC4..U+1DCD, U+1DF5, U+1DFD..U+1DFF
+Latin Extended Additional|U+1E00..U+1EFF
+General Punctuation|U+2000..U+2030, U+2032..U+203B, U+203C, U+203F.. U+2041, U+2044, U+2053, U+2057, U+2060..U+2063, U+206A..U+206F
+Superscripts and Subscripts|U+2070..U+2071, U+2074..U+208E, U+2090..U+209C
+Currency Symbols|U+20A0..U+20BF
+Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols|U+20E5, U+20EC..U+20EF
+Letterlike Symbols|U+210C, U+2113, U+2116..U+2117, U+211F, U+2122..U+2123, U+2126, U+212D, U+2135, U+214F
+Number Forms|U+2150..U+2189
+Arrows|U+2190..U+219B, U+21A8, U+21D0..U+21D5
+Mathematical Operators|U+2202..U+2206, U+220F, U+2211..U+2213, U+2219..U+221A, U+221E, U+2225..U+2226, U+222B, U+2234..U+2235, U+223C, U+2248, U+225F, U+2260..U+2262, U+2264..U+2265, U+U+2282..U+2287
+Miscellaneous Technical|U+2308..U+230B, U+231C..U+231F, U+2329..U+232A, U+239B..U+23AD
+Control Pictures|U+2423
+Geometric Shapes|U+25CA, U+25CC
+Miscellaneous Symbols|U+2640, U+2642, U+266D, U+266F
+Dingbats|U+2713, U+274D
+Misc. Math. Symbols-A|U+27E6..U+27E9
+Latin Extended-C|U+2C60..U+2C7F
+Coptic|U+2C88
+Supplemental Punctuation|U+2E00..U+2E0D, U+2E13, U+2E14, U+2E17, U+2E22..U+2E25, U+2E3A..U+2E3B
+Modifier Tone Letters|U+A700..U+A71F
+Latin Extended-D|U+A720..U+A78F, U+A790..U+A799, U+A7A0..U+A7AF, U+A7B0..U+A7B9, U+A7F7..U+A7FF
+Kayah Li|U+A92E
+Latin Extended-E|U+AB30, U+AB53, U+AB5C, U+AB5E, U+AB64..U+AB65
+PUA: Specials|U+F130..U+F133
+PUA: Modifier letters (e.g. superscripts)|U+F1A1, U+F1A3..U+F1A4, U+F1AB, U+F1AE, U+F1B4..U+F1B5, U+F1BC, U+F1CD..U+F1CE, U+F1F1..U+F1F9
+PUA: Latin|U+F20D, U+F234..U+F235, U+F258..U+F259, U+F267..U+F269, U+F26C..U+F26D
+PUA: Cyrillic|U+F326..U+F327
+Alphabetic Presentation Forms|U+FB00..U+FB04
+Variation Selectors|U+FE00..U+FE0F
+Combining Half Marks|U+FE20..U+FE23
+Arabic Presentation Forms-B|U+FEFF (zero-width no-break space)
+Specials|U+FFF9..U+FFFD
+Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols|U+1D40C, U+1D504..U+1D505, U+1D50A, U+1D50E..U+1D510, U+1D513..U+1D514, U+1D516..U+1D517, U+1D519
+
+## Private-use (PUA) characters
+
+There are a number of private-use characters that are supported in this font. These conform to [SIL International’s corporate registry](http://scripts.sil.org/PUA_home) for usage of the Unicode private-use areas. Characters which are not yet in Unicode are shown below.
+
+### Specials
+
+- U+F130 FONT BASELINE AND SIDE-BEARING MARKER LEFT
+- U+F131 FONT BASELINE AND SIDE-BEARING MARKER RIGHT
+- U+F132 FONT VERTICAL METRICS MARKER LEFT
+- U+F133 FONT VERTICAL METRICS MARKER RIGHT
+
+### Modifier Letters
+
+- U+F1A1 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL AE
+- U+F1A3 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL REVERSED E
+- U+F1A4 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CLOSED REVERSED OPEN E
+- U+F1AB MODIFIER LETTER SMALL O WITH STROKE
+- U+F1AE MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL OE
+- U+F1B4 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL Y
+- U+F1B5 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL RAMS HORN
+- U+F1BC MODIFIER LETTER SMALL H WITH STROKE
+- U+F1CD MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL U BAR
+- U+F1CE MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED Y
+
+### Latin
+
+- U+F20D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH STROKE AND HOOK
+- U+F234 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH PALATAL HOOK
+- U+F235 LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH WITH PALATAL HOOK
+- U+F258 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL I OVER SMALL SCHWA
+- U+F259 LATIN LETTER SMALL UPSILON OVER SMALL SCHWA
+- U+F267 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED Y WITH BELT
+- U+F268 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL L WITH BELT
+- U+F269 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R WITH LONG LEG AND HOOK
+- U+F26D LATIN SMALL LETTER B WITH LEFT HOOK
+- U+F26E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER RAMS HORN
+
+### Cyrillic
+
+- U+F326 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE AND DESCENDER
+- U+F327 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE AND DESCENDER
+
+### Deprecated SIL Corporate PUA characters
+
+Some characters formerly in the PUA have been added to Unicode, and so have been deprecated in our fonts. Those PUA characters are displayed as black boxes containing a white image of the deprecated glyph.