From: Antoine Leca (Antoine10646@leca-marti.org)
Date: Fri Sep 09 2005 - 03:22:17 CDT
Dan Masarick asked:
> Has anyone compiled a list of supported languages for UTF8, UTF16?
The FAQ says http://www.unicode.org/faq/basic_q.html#16:
Q: How many languages are covered by Unicode?
A: It's hard to say. Many scripts (especially Latin) are used for a very
large number of languages. The easiest answer is that Unicode covers all the
languages that can be written in the following scripts: [ follows the
loooooooong list of scripts encoded in Unicode. ]
It would probably easier to list the languages not supported. Besides sign
languages (which are themselves a challenge to list) and all the dead
spoken-only languages for which we only have mentions of existence (another
big challenge), I do not believe you will end with a very long list,
particularly if you take in account the scripts that will be encoded in
Unicode in a few years from now
(http://www.unicode.org/pending/pending.html).
Antoine
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