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Re: languages that need Unicode

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Subject: Re: languages that need Unicode
From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 19:11:22 +0000
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"Alexander Voropay" wrote on 2000-03-10 17:16 UTC:
> 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)

Have you checked out ISO 639-2 already?

http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso639/iso639-en.html

Markus

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