RE: Level of Unicode support required for various languages
Peter Constable <[email protected]>
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Ideographic Description Sequence characters are not meant for, and should not be used for, representing text elements in running text other than ideographic description sequences. In other words, descriptions of characters that would be used in simple sentences of Zhuang can be represented in Unicode, but simple sentences of Zhuang cannot. Peter -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 9:06 PM To: Andrew West Cc: Kenneth Whistler; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: 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 <[email protected]>: ------------------------------------------------- This message sent through Virus Free Email http://www.vfemail.net