Re: Private Use Area

But it misses English, such as the name "Zoë"

Märk Dāvĭs
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Muller" <emuller@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Kevin Brown" <graphity@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Public email list" <unicode@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 10:46
Subject: Re: Private Use Area


>
>
> Kevin Brown wrote:
>
> >Is there a database anywhere that cross-references Latin-based glyphs (eg
> >E WITH DIAERESIS) to all the Latin-based writing systems they're used in
> >(eg Dutch, French, Albanian, Cyrillic and Welsh) and vice versa? It would
> >be really useful.
> >
> www.eki.ee, which has already been mentioned a few times,  reports the
> following for U+00CB Ë LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS:
>
> name: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
> old name: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E DIAERESIS
> Adobe glyph name: Edieresis
> mnemonic name(s): <E:>
> HTML 4 mnemonic name:&Euml;
> category: Lu (Letter, Uppercase)
> combining: 0
> decomposition info: 0045 0308
> comment:
> found in charsets: 8859-1 (CB); 8859-10 (CB); 8859-14 (CB); 8859-15
> (CB); 8859-2 (CB); 8859-3 (CB); 8859-4 (CB); 8859-9 (CB); CP1250 (CB);
> CP1252 (CB); CP1254 (CB); CP1258 (CB); CP850 (D3); CP852 (D3); CP857
> (D3); CP863 (94); ROMAN (E8); CP1116 (D3); CP1122 (73); SAMI_WIN (CB);
> SAMI_MAC (E8); 8859-16 (CB);
> found in languages: af [Afrikaans]; cy [Welsh]; fr [French]; fy
> [Frisian]; lb [Luxembourgian]; nl [Dutch]; sq [Albanian]; sv [Swedish];
> wo [Wolof]; yap [Yapese]; dink [Dinka]; sla [Kashubian];
> used in romanization of: be_r [Belarusian (cyrillic)]; ru_r [Russian
> (cyrillic)];
> lowercase: 00EB
>
>
> This database also covers Cyrillic and the languages written in it.
>
> The underlying data can be accessed a number of ways: e.g. “what is
> needed beyond basic Cyrillic to write Altai?” reports U+0458 ј CYRILLIC
> SMALL LETTER JE, U+04A5 ҥ CYRILLIC SMALL LIGATURE EN GHE, U+04E7 ӧ
> CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS and U+04F1 ӱ CYRILLIC SMALL
> LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS.
>
> As far as I can tell, the underlying data is of good quality; of course,
> there the devil is in the details, and there are certainly decisions
> that could be argued. A wonderful resource.
>
> Eric.
>
>