This topic lists General Library fonts by font type and language group. These language groups identify supported languages for General Library fonts:

• The Arabic language group (International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 8859-6) includes Latin and Arabic scripts.
• The Cyrillic language group (ISO 8859-5) includes Bulgarian, Byelorussian, English, Macedonian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Ukrainian.
• The Greek language group (ISO 8859-7) includes Latin and Greek scripts.
• The Hebrew language group (ISO 8859-8) includes Latin and Hebrew scripts.
• Katakana contains phonetic syllabic characters that are used for writing non-Japanese words, such as foreign names, borrowed words, or company names.
• The Lao language group provides support for the Lao language.
• The Latin language group includes Latin1 through Latin5 and Vietnamese.
• The Latin1 language group (ISO 8859-1) includes Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. The Latin1 language group also provides the euro currency symbol and all Latin9 (ISO 8859-15) characters.
• The Latin2 language group (ISO 8859-2) includes Albanian, Czech, English, German, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, and Slovenian.
• The Latin3 language group (ISO 8859-3) includes Afrikaans, Catalan, Dutch, English, Esperanto, French, German, Italian, Maltese, Spanish, and Turkish.
• The Latin4 language group (ISO 8859-4) includes Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Greenlandic, Lap, Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, and Norwegian.
• The Latin5 language group (ISO 8859-9) includes Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
• The Thai language group provides support for the Thai language.

Table 1 provides this information for General Library fonts:

AFP typeface name

The IBM® name for the typeface. Courier, Helvetica, and Times New Roman fonts contain characters for the ISO language groups.

Type 1 typeface name

The Type 1 outline font name for the typeface.

Style and weight

The style and weight of the font. Possible values are:

IB

Italic Bold

IM

Italic Medium

RB

Roman Bold

RM

Roman Medium

Character set identifier

A six-character name, with "CZ" as the prefix, that identifies an AFP outline character set.

Type 1 file name

The name of a Type 1 font that is used to create the AFP outline font. The file extensions are AFM, INF, and PFB.

GCSGID

The graphic character set global identifier (GCSGID) is a collection of characters that are registered with a unique number and sometimes used for font and code page selection.

FGID

The font typeface global identifier (FGID) is a number that is assigned to each typeface and is sometimes used for font selection.