[1] [DFN[ラテン文字]]は、[[英語]]、[[独語]]をはじめとする[[西欧]]の[[言語]]の[[表記]]に主として用いられる[[用字系]]です。 代表的な[[アルファベット]]であり、単に「[[アルファベット]]」と呼ばれることもあります。 また、[[ローマ字]]と呼ばれることもあります。 [2] > "Latin characters" is a not-precise term for characters historically related to ancient Greek script and currently used throughout the world. > The base Latin characters make up the ASCII repertoire and have been augmented by many single and multiple diacritics and quite a few other characters. ISO/IEC 10646 encodes the Latin characters in the ranges U+0020..U+024F, U+1E00..U+1EFF, and other ranges. ;; [CITE@en[RFC 3536 - Terminology Used in Internationalization in the IETF]] ([TIME[2011-01-29 02:14:52 +09:00]] 版) [3] [CITE@en[RFC 6365 - Terminology Used in Internationalization in the IETF]] ([TIME[2011-09-10 19:11:51 +09:00]] 版) [4] [CITE@en[Requirements for Latin Text Layout and Pagination]] ( ([TIME[2014-03-12 18:34:50 +09:00]] 版))