Martin Kochanski scripsit:
> For the sake of completeness, are there any other living Western
> European languages that need Unicode? From the recent correspondence,
> it seems that Catalan would not be on that list.
Well, where do you draw the border? Assuming ad hoc that Germany,
Austria, and Italy (and points west) are Western, and that Poland,
the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovenia (and points east) are not,
and neglecting the historic presence of Slovene-speakers in Italy and
Magyar-speakers in Germany, then:
Lower and Upper Sorbian require Latin-2, though they are spoken
exclusively in Germany.
Western Yiddish is nearly extinct, but obviously requires a Hebrew-script
code page.
Sweden and Finland are a puzzlement. Physically, they are both in the
East as defined above, but have usually been treated as Western European
countries for historico-political reasons. Swedish and Finnish are both
handled by 1252, but the 7 or 8 minority Saami languages spoken in either
or both countries are not.
Adding in Welsh and Maltese, I think that covers it.
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