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Re: languages that need Unicode



From: Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@xxxxxxxx> wrote :


>Does anyone have a list of languages for which the only reasonably
>adequate and reasonably well-established encoding is Unicode?


 During USSR time there was lot of scripts done on Cyrillic
alphabet base with different extensions. See :
http://members.tripod.com/~anttikoski/eng_index.html
For example, Komi-zyrian (~1.5 mln. peoples) could be written
only in UTF-8. There is no 8-bit charset for this language.

 Unfortunately, most of these languages have no "Language/
Country Tags" (ISO-639 and ISO-3166) and can't be defined
in MIME (Content-Language: ), HTTP, SGML / HTML 4.0
<HTML LANG="xx"> and POSIX Locale (export LANG=xx_YY).


http://www.unicode.org/unicode/onlinedat/countries.html
http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/index.html

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