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It's kind of cheating, but Braille should all fit in a 3x2 font.

You'd need a language that doesn't rely on accent marks or pictograms for sure (unless they have a very tiny set of characters), and that probably eliminates a lot of languages.



Latin accents could perhaps be represented as digraphs for such a tiny font.

Some languages have an official mapping, like in German where you can usually replace ä with ae, ü with ue, and so on.

Otherwise the accent could be a separate character, as in cafe’. Probably would be acceptable for this application.




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