Re: Re: Support for Internationalized Explanations

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:56:53PM +0100, Chris Haynes wrote:
> that >can not be expressed in UTF-8 (Russian, Korean, Chinese, ....). So while
> it servers >your purposes, what does it solve on the grander scheme??
>
> I beg to differ.
>
> Here http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html#glass  is a sampler, showing a
> test phrase phrase in more than 100 languages and dialects, including Russian
> (and 5 other Cyrillic-based languages ), Korean and two Chinese scripts..
>
> The only unsupported scripts which The Unicode Consortium admit to are:
> Balinese
> Javanese
> Manipuri (Meithei, Kanglei)
> Moso (Naxi)
> N'ko (Mandekan)
> New Tai Lue
> Pahawh Hmong
> Rong (Lepcha)
> Siloti Nagri (Syloti Nagri)
> Tai Mau
> Tifinagh (Berber)
>
> (From http://www.unicode.org/standard/unsupported.html ).
>
>
> Of course not every browser / MUA may be up-to-date with all the glyphs - but
> that's not a UTF-8 restriction.
I stand corrected. 

Still, it'd be a shame not to be able to put my exp in siloti nagri
though :)

Koen

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