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Character sets that relate to specific alphabets should go in the relevant subcategory. Technical information to do with Unicode only should go in the Unicode subcategory. |
Information, resources and products related to international character encoding, national character sets and character conversion issues.
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For all Arabic encodings, including Unicode. |
Arabic script encodings, including Arabic, Persian/Farsi and Kurdish.
CJKV stands for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese and is an acronym used to describe these far-east languages and writing systems that contain more than 256 individual characters and can therefore only be represented by more than one byte per character.CJKV is a particular term used in Globalization - this category deals with the process in general. Individual language categories exist for specific languages.
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Includes Unicode in addition to other Chinese code pages. |
Simplified and Traditional Chinese character encoding systems.
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For Cyrillic encoding methods only, including Unicode. Many languages that use Cyrillic also use Latin, Arabic and other encoding systems. |
Used by many languages, including Russian, Ukranian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Belorussian, Kurdish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian and Uzbek.
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For all Greek and Coptic encodings, including Unicode. |
Modern Greek and Coptic character sets. Although Greek is a well-known modern language, Coptic is a ceremonial language still in use in the Middle East.
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For all Korean and Hangul encoding systems including Unicode. |
Hangul is the Korean alphabet, related in some ways to Chinese, but otherwise unique to Korea and similar in structure to many Indo-European alphabet systems.
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For non-Latin versions of Hebew, Yiddish and Ladino encoding systems, including Unicode. |
Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino alphabets.
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For all Indic character sets, including Unicode, ISCII and related encoding systems. |
Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hindi, Kannada, Khmer, Lao, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Sanskrit, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan and Thai characters sets use variations of Brahmi-derived Indic characters.
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For the various encoding systems used in Japan, including Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji and Romaji. |
Japanese uses various character encoding systems, from the traditional Kanji to the Latin-derived Romaji.
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For Latin character sets only. Many language use a local alphabetic system too. |
Used by Afrikaans, Albanian, Aymara, Azeri, Bailnese, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Cornish, Danish, Dutch/Nederlands, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Malaysian, Manx, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Welsh and many other languages.
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For all Native American encoding systems, typically Unicode character sets. |
There are many languages native to North and South America, such as Cree, Navajo, Mayan, Aztec, Incan and Inuit (Inuktitut).
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Any Unicode submissions specific to character sets should be submitted into the relevant category. This category is for general Unicode issues. |
Unicode is the standard character encoding system that allows the correct display and entry of virtually all characters of every language in the world.
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