Re: South African languages character repertoires, keyboards and

From: Mark Leisher (mleisher@crl.nmsu.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2000 - 10:23:21 EDT


>> There are eleven official languages in South Africa at the national
>> level: Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, Sesotho sa Leboa, Sesotho,
>> siSwati, Xitsonga, Setswana, Tshivenda, isiXhosa and isiZulu.
>>
>>
>> 1- Are all these languages covered by ISO/IEC 10646 (Universal
>> Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set - UCS)? If not, what should SA have
>> to do in regards that all these languages be covered by ISO/IEC 10646?

    [Alain] Does somebody have this information?

Yes, UCS has all of the letters needed. Some of them are constructed with
combining characters. Attached is a small image of the critical characters.
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Special SA characters.



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