Re: List of languages covered by Unicode

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Fri Dec 20 1996 - 04:52:45 EST


At 16:14 1996-12-19, unicode@Unicode.ORG wrote:
>
>What languages does Unicode v2 actually cover?

It covers characters!

>I have a list of scripts that Unicode supports, but which language does
>each script cover? Is there an easy way for me to find this out?

No, there isn't an "easy way" (and a number of Version 2's character notes
regarding languages aren't quite right either, sad to say). For European
languages you can look at
http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/tc304wg2/p11/p11.html which is still a
work in progress but gives you an idea.

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