Re: what is Latn?

From: JFC (Jefsey) Morfin (jefsey@jefsey.com)
Date: Sat May 14 2005 - 20:07:14 CDT

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    On 21:02 14/05/2005, Chris Jacobs said:
    > > Could someone tell me where to find the list of the characters
    > > belonging to ISO 15924 "Latn" script?
    >
    >When I first read this question I mistook ISO 15924 for the name of the
    >"Latn" script, but Google enlightened me.
    >
    >http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=iso+15924&btnG=Google+zoeken&meta 
    >http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso15924/
    >http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/iso15924-codes.html
    >
    > > I wish to know if they support all
    > > the French characters and variants?
    >
    >Since Latn is a script, not a charset, you cannot expect an authoritative
    >list of what is in it, but there is a list of which unicode chars are Latin,
    >where Latin is Latn or Latf (Fraktur variant) or Latg (Gaelic variant).
    >
    >http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr24/tr24-4.html
    >http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Scripts.txt

    Dear Chris,
    you are right. But the combination of ISO 639, ISO 3166 and ISO 15924 is
    the matter I consider. I see no big problem in piling more or less precise
    or erroneous lists: this hurts no one and permits the main vendors to
    proceed to their world market repartition. Now, the problem is when one
    discusses the possibilty of a default script associated to a language: does
    the script exist? ISO 15924 is a list of script names. I cannot associate a
    name to a language name without some kind of correspondancy rule I can
    check. I think reasonable to say that I can associate the name of a script
    to the name of a language if they share identical charsets when using (all)
    the encoding scheme(s) accepted by the programmers community?
    jfc

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