Re: Searching data: map countries to scripts

Cldr has both of those, at least for official and defacto-official
languages.

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On Aug 20, 2012 4:03 PM, "Manuel Strehl" <boldewyn_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> > This might not work too well, since the ISO 15924 code elements you're
> > thinking of are "Hira" and "Kana".
>
> This awkward moment... I'm trying to figure out, what I was thinking
> of with "Hana".
>
> >> Of course, the mapping must be sensible in a way, that is, explain,
> >> how the mapping is done. I'd be fine, I guess, with having all
> >> official languages and important historic ones respected (disputable
> >> cases, where larger minority languages are suppressed, may exist of
> >> course).
> >
> >
> > You've sort of defined your own problem: how to decide when minority
> usage
> > of a script within a country is "significant" or "important" or
> "sensible."
> > Remember, too, that "official languages" may not be what you expect;
> > English, for example, is not defined as an official language in the US,
> UK,
> > Australia, or New Zealand.
>
> Yeah, that's practically a part of my problem. If I had a list of
> country -> language maps and a list of language -> script maps, I
> could work my way from there, but at the moment I have neither. (At
> least in a program-digestible way. Figuring out the language -> script
> part would be the easier task here, I guess.)
>
>
Received on Mon Aug 20 2012 - 09:52:55 CDT