Re: Unicode 3.0 press statements

From: Mark E. Davis (markdavis@ispchannel.com)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 22:36:34 EST


John,

A list like this could be useful. Would you (or anyone else on this list) be have
the time to put together a list like this that also includes the languages of the
EU?

An interesting thought; is at least one official written language of every country
covered by Unicode? This doesn't mean that all symbols (we've seen the Rial) are
covered.

Mark

John Cowan wrote:

> mark.davis@us.ibm.com wrote:
>
> > Covers 95% of all world languages
>
> Of course, we have to talk about languages that have written form.
> Of the 6700+ languages in the Ethnologue (http://www.sil.org/ethnologue),
> a large majority have never been written at all or have only
> Bible translations.
>
> I suspect that 100% of the top 100 languages by population that
> have a written form can be written with Unicode. Here's a list,
> with unwritten languages (mostly dialects of Italian, Arabic,
> and Chinese) weeded out:
>
> CHINESE
> SPANISH
> ENGLISH
> BENGALI
> HINDI
> PORTUGUESE
> RUSSIAN
> JAPANESE
> GERMAN, STANDARD
> JAVANESE
> KOREAN
> FRENCH
> VIETNAMESE
> TELUGU
> MARATHI
> TAMIL
> TURKISH
> URDU
> GUJARATI
> POLISH
> ARABIC
> UKRAINIAN
> ITALIAN
> MALAYALAM
> KANNADA
> ORIYA
> PANJABI, WESTERN
> SUNDA (written? Indonesia)
> PANJABI, EASTERN
> ROMANIAN
> BHOJPURI (written?)
> AZERBAIJANI, SOUTH
> FARSI, WESTERN
> MAITHILI
> HAUSA
> BURMESE
> SERBO-CROATIAN
> AWADHI
> THAI
> DUTCH
> YORUBA
> SINDHI
> UZBEK, NORTHERN
> MALAY
> AMHARIC
> INDONESIAN
> IGBO
> TAGALOG
> NEPALI
> SARAIKI (written? Pakistan)
> CEBUANO (written in Latin nowadays? Philippines)
> THAI, NORTHEASTERN (written?)
> ASSAMESE
> HUNGARIAN
> CHITTAGONIAN (written? Bangladesh)
> SINHALA
> HARYANVI (written? India)
> MARWARI
> CZECH
> GREEK
> MAGAHI (written? India)
> CHHATTISGARHI
> DECCAN (written?)
> BELARUSAN
> ZHUANG, NORTHERN
> PASHTO, NORTHERN
> SOMALI
> MALAGASY
> RWANDA
> ZULU
> BULGARIAN
> SWEDISH
> OROMO, WEST-CENTRAL (written? Ethiopia)
> PASHTO, SOUTHERN
> KAZAKH
> ILOCANO
> TATAR
> FULFULDE, NIGERIAN (written?)
> UYGHUR
> HAITIAN CREOLE FRENCH
> KHMER, CENTRAL
> FARSI, EASTERN
> AKAN (written? Ghana)
> HILIGAYNON (written? Philippines)
> KURMANJI (written?)
> SHONA
>
> --
>
> Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com
> Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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