Character encoding (Ranger)

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Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia uses UTF-8 as the standard encoding to store text data.

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Character Set

The blocks and code points of the characters in the fonts of each game are described in the tables below.

Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia

Fonts are stored in the NFTR pixel font format and used on UTF-8 encoded text. The game uses two fonts for each writing system: a main font used for dialogue and some menu text, and a small font used for most menu and GUI text. Japanese copies do not contain Latin script fonts.

Japanese

In the following table, any changes in character support from small to main versions are shown in parentheses.

Block range	Block name	Supported code points
		Ranges	Count (Small)	Count (Main)
U+0000..U+007F	Basic Latin	U+0020 (U+0030..U+0039)	1	11
U+0080..U+00FF	Latin-1 Supplement	U+00D7, U+00F7	2	2
U+2000..U+206F	General Punctuation	U+2026	1	1
U+2190..U+21FF	Arrows	U+2190..U+2193	4	4
U+25A0..U+25FF	Geometric Shapes	U+25A1, U+25B3, U+25C7, U+25CB, U+25CE	5	5
U+2600..U+26FF	Miscellaneous Symbols	U+2605, U+2640, U+2642, U+266A (U+2600..U+2603, U+2660, U+2663, U+2665..U+2666)	4	12
U+3000..U+303F	CJK Symbols and Punctuation	U+3001..U+3002, U+300C..U+300F (U+3000)	6	7
U+3040..U+309F	Hiragana	U+3041..U+3093, U+309B..U+309C (Main version lacks U+309B..U+309C)	85	83
U+30A0..U+30FF	Katakana	U+30A1..U+30F6, U+30FB..U+30FC	88	88
U+3300..U+33FF	CJK Compatibility	(U+3300..U+3306)	0	7
U+4E00..U+9FFF	CJK Unified Ideographs	U+4E9C, U+54C0, U+5516, U+59F6, U+60AA, U+611B, U+6328, U+63E1, U+65ED, U+6E25, U+831C, U+8475, U+86D9, U+9022, U+963F (Main version lacks this block)	15	0
U+FF00..U+FFEF	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms	U+FF01, U+FF05, U+FF08..U+FF09, U+FF0B..U+FF1B, U+FF1D, U+FF1F..U+FF3A, U+FF41..U+FF5A, U+FF5E (U+FF0C not in main version)	77	76
Total:			288	296

English

Block range	Block name	Supported code points
		Ranges	Count
U+0000..U+007F	Basic Latin	U+0020..U+005A, U+005E..U+007B, U+007D..U+007E	91
U+0080..U+00FF	Latin-1 Supplement	U+00A1, U+00A6, U+00AA, U+00B7..U+00B8, U+00BA, U+00BF..U+00C2, U+00C4, U+00C7..U+00CF, U+00D1..U+00D4, U+00D6, U+00D9..U+00DC, U+00DF..U+00E2, U+00E4, U+00E7..U+00EF, U+00F1..U+00F4, U+00F6, U+00F9..U+00FC	52
U+0100..U+017F	Latin Extended-A	U+0152..U+0153	2
U+2000..U+206F	General Punctuation	U+2018..U+2019, U+201C..U+201E, U+2026	6
U+2190..U+21FF	Arrows	U+2190..U+2193	4
U+2200..U+22FF	Mathematical Operators	U+226A..U+226B, U+2572	2
U+2500..U+257F	Box Drawing	U+2572	1
U+25A0..U+25FF	Geometric Shapes	U+25A1, U+25B3, U+25C7, U+25CB, U+25CE	5
U+2600..U+26FF	Miscellaneous Symbols	U+2600..U+2603, U+2605, U+2640, U+2642, U+2660, U+2663, U+2665..U+2666, U+266A	12
U+3000..U+303F	CJK Symbols and Punctuation	U+3000	1
U+3040..U+309F	Hiragana	U+3048, U+308C, U+3091	3
U+4E00..U+9FFF	CJK Unified Ideographs	U+4E0A..U+4E0B, U+559C, U+6012, U+661F, U+666E, U+6CE3, U+7720	8
U+FF00..U+FFEF	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms	U+FF3B, U+FF3D, U+FF5E	3
Total:			190

Nonstandard Characters

Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia

Both Latin fonts display the following characters in a nonstandard manner.

Code	Unicode character		Displayed character
U+3048	え	HIRAGANA LETTER E	e	Superscript e
U+308C	れ	HIRAGANA LETTER RE	re	Superscript re
U+3091	ゑ	HIRAGANA LETTER WE	er	Superscript er
U+4E0A	上	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E0A	⤴︎	Halfwidth arrow pointing rightwards then curving upwards
U+4E0B	下	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E0B	⤵︎	Halfwidth arrow pointing rightwards then curving downwards
U+559C	喜	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-559C		Happy face
U+6012	怒	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6012		Angry face
U+661F	星	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-661F		Asterisk
U+666E	普	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-666E		Neutral face
U+6CE3	泣	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CE3		Sad face
U+7720	眠	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7720		Sleeping symbol

The main Japanese font displays the following characters in a nonstandard manner.

Code	Unicode character		Displayed character
U+3300	㌀	SQUARE ABAATO		Neutral face
U+3301	㌁	SQUARE ARUHUA		Happy face
U+3302	㌂	SQUARE ANPEA		Sad face
U+3303	㌃	SQUARE AARU		Angry face
U+3304	㌄	SQUARE ININGU		Sleeping symbol
U+3305	㌅	SQUARE INTI	⤴︎	Halfwidth arrow pointing rightwards then curving upwards
U+3306	㌆	SQUARE UON	⤵︎	Halfwidth arrow pointing rightwards then curving downwards

Unlike the main font, the small Japanese font maps nearly all of its pictograms in nonstandard locations.

Code	Unicode character		Displayed character
U+4E9C	亜	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E9C	☀	Black sun with rays
U+54C0	哀	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54C0	♠	Black spade suit
U+5516	唖	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5516	☁	Cloud
U+59F6	姶	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59F6	♦	Black diamond suit
U+60AA	悪	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-60AA		Angry face
U+611B	愛	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-611B	♣	Black club suit
U+6328	挨	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6328	♥	Black heart suit
U+63E1	握	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-63E1		Sleeping symbol
U+65ED	旭	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-65ED	⤵︎	Halfwidth arrow pointing rightwards then curving downwards
U+6E25	渥	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6E25	⤴︎	Halfwidth arrow pointing rightwards then curving upwards
U+831C	茜	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-831C		Sad face
U+8475	葵	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8475		Happy face
U+86D9	蛙	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-86D9	☂	Umbrella
U+9022	逢	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9022		Neutral face
U+963F	阿	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-963F	☃	Snowman

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