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Central European languages can get more or less by with Latin-1, although even there many characters are already missing, iirc French, Czech, Dutch and Finnish.
by throwawayish 10y ago
Central European languages can get more or less by with Latin-1, although even there many characters are already missing, iirc French, Czech, Dutch and Finnish. Special characters of many regional dialects are missing as well.
FWIW (more or less proper) Unicode support seems to be pretty much an implicit, hard requirement today for almost anything facing users.
- 1wd 10y agoMany government databases still just use some codepage and won't be changing anytime soon though. You can't get your name in a Swiss passport without first changing it into something ISO 8859-15 can represent. http://www.24heures.ch/suisse/Les-noms-de-l-Est-mutiles-lors-de-la-naturalisation/story/25231514 http://www.24heures.ch/suisse/Les-noms-de-l-Est-mutiles-lors...