# T: special case for uppercase I and dotted uppercase I<snip>
# - For non-Turkic languages, this mapping is normally not used.
# - For Turkic languages (tr, az), this mapping can be used instead of the normal mapping for these characters.
Is that what is called a "character subset" for a scripted language family? Well I don't like the term "Turkic" to name it. I prefer the more common "Altaic Latin alphabet", seen as a standard subset of the Latin script, with additional properties.Thank you, Philippe. Well, I am glad to read "not normally used" rather than "must not be used" as this allows mapping T to be used for other languages when appropriate.
May be Unicode should not try to use language codes for families of languages, but it could define "representative subsets of characters" which may contain characters from several scripts, but would be minimized according to the tradition of a family of languages. Such families seem evident from the current ISO-8859-* and Mac/Windows/DOS charsets.
-- Philippe.
I also don't like the word Turkic here. This is a linguistic term for a language family, see http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=710. Turkish and Azeri are Turkic languages, but there are many Turkic languages which don't use this case mapping, either because they use other alphabets (Cyrillic, Arabic, occasionally Hebrew, perhaps even Greek) or because they use a Latin alphabet with the regular case mapping as in Uzbek and Turkmen. There are also some non-Turkic minority languages which need the T case mapping. "Altaic Latin alphabet" is a reasonable alternative, although again Altaic is a language family name, covering Turkic, Mongolian and Tungus, see http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=709, and as far as I know mapping T is not needed for any Mongolian or Tungusic languages.
Does anyone know of a good resource on the web, or elsewhere, listing the alphabets used for different languages around the world? I know a project was attempted a few years ago at least for Europe. It would be useful to have this kind of data available somewhere even with no official status.
-- Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
