Re: Level of Unicode support required for various languages

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Date: Wed Oct 24 2007 - 23:05:36 CDT

  • Next message: Timothy Armes: "RE: Level of Unicode support required for various languages"

    Since it is difficult to answer the question does uniocde support more
    than half of the 4000 languages of the world, and who knows how many
    dialects. The list of what is required grows the more one thinks about
    it.

    For example talking about CJKV characters at present many characters
    can only be repesented by IDS, one therefore really needs IDS to
    character display to write even simple sentance in some languages like
    Zhuang.

    While Europe has quite good coverage ( though not hungarian runes) the
    coverage of asian and african scripts is sparse. Current scripts under
    WG2 review include, but are by no means restricted to Javanese, Lisu,
    Miao, Nushu, and Tangut. Some scripts like Egyptians Heiroglyphics
    will need a higher protocol outside of the scope of uniocde to display
    properly.

    John Knightley

    Quoting Andrew West <andrewcwest@gmail.com>:

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