Yes, that is difficult -- actually it is even tricky to see which are the letters used in a language (that is one of the items that Unicode CLDR collects).<br><br>Mark<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
CE Whitehead</b> <<a href="mailto:cewcathar@hotmail.com">cewcathar@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks for the info; +1 for suppress script for kore (though I'm out of my<br>area of expertise)<br>--C. E. Whitehead<br><a href="mailto:cewcathar@hotmail.com">cewcathar@hotmail.com</a><br><br>>Harald Tveit Alvestrand scripsit:
<br>><br>> > You tickle my curiosity....<br>> ><br>> > where is it stated, authoritatively, that "Hang" is a proper subset of<br>> > "Kore"?<br>><br>>The 15924 listing page at
<br>><a href="http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/iso15924-codes.html">http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/iso15924-codes.html</a> defines "Kore" thus:<br>><br>>Kore 287 Korean (alias for Hangul + Han) coréen (alias pour
<br>>hangûl + han)<br>Thanks I saw this; +1 for suppress script for kore<br>><br>> > Since I've been bemoaning the lack of lists of which characters a given<br>> > script contains in other contexts (even while I was acknowledging that
<br>> > making such lists is a hard and extremely painful task), any hint that<br>> > such lists may exist for a script tickles my curiosity.<br>><br>>See <a href="http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Scripts.txt">
http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Scripts.txt</a> .<br>>These properties are considered informative by Unicode. Now what is<br>>a much harder problem is to say which characters are required by a<br>>given *language*, and while there are a variety of partial answers,
<br>>there is nothing that approaches the authoritative.<br><br>I'm confused; do you mean, for example, whether the following--<br>&x0AB; &x0BB;<br>are the quotation marks required by say, French,<br>or whether the ansi character, "
<br>can replace both???<br>><br>>--<br>>Your worships will perhaps be thinking John Cowan<br><br>_________________________________________________________________<br><a href="http://newlivehotmail.com">http://newlivehotmail.com
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