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Runic

U+16A0 – U+16FF   (5792–5887)

The Runic range was introduced with version 3.0 of the Unicode Standard. The characters (runes) were designed for ease of carving into wood or stone and were used in ancient Scandinavia and other parts of Europe. You can find out more about Runic at The Runic Journey site.

Microsoft Windows incorporates support for Runic Unicode from Windows 7 onwards.

The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.

You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Aboriginal Serif, ALPHABETUM Unicode, BabelStone Moon Runes, Cardo, Caslon, Chrysanthi Unicode, Code2000, Dialekt Uni, EversonMono, Fixedsys Excelsior, Free Idg Serif, Free Monospaced, Hnias, Junicode, LeedsUni, Quivira, Segoe UI Symbol (in Windows 7), Sun-ExtA and TITUS Cyberbit Basic; in the Macintosh OS X Unicode font Junicode; and in the Unix Unicode font Caslon and ClearlyU.

To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, or WunderMoosen’s FontChecker.

If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U16A0.pdf.

Copyright © 1999–2014 Alan Wood

The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 7.0.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2014 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode ftp site (ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in October 2014.

Created 4th October 1999   Last updated 28th October 2014