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    <p>I am trying to find a resource that can be used to connect Languages (or more probably Scripts) to blocks of Unicode characters. Such a resource would be used to lookup questions such as "What Unicode Blocks are used in French?" or "What languages use the block from 0A80-0AFF (<a href="http://unicodinator.com/#Block-Gujarati">http://unicodinator.com/#Block-Gujarati</a>)?" Do you know of such a resource? </p> <p>I would have expected to be able to find this information easily at <a href="http://unicode.org">unicode.org</a>. I was quickly able to find a great table that relates Country Codes to Languages (<a href="http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-tmp/trunk/diff/supplemental/territory_language_information.html">http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-tmp/trunk/diff/supplemental/territory_language_information.html</a>). But I've spent quite a bit of time poking around with no luck finding something that relates Unicode Blocks to Languages. Its possible I've got a terminology issue blocking me from connecting the dots here...</p> <p>I am not picky about exactly what is meant by "language" (Java Locale code or ISO 639 code or whatever) in this case. I also understand that there may not be exact answers because, for instance, an Arabic document can contain Latin and other text in addition to characters from the Arabic blocks (<a href="http://unicodinator.com/#Block-Arabic">http://unicodinator.com/#Block-Arabic</a>, <a href="http://unicodinator.com/#Block-Arabic_Supplement">http://unicodinator.com/#Block-Arabic_Supplement</a>). But surely there must be some table that says "these languages go with these blocks"... I'm also not picky about the format (XML, CSV, whatever), I can easily transform this into data I can use for my application. And again, I do realize the reference would probably connect <em>Scripts</em> to Blocks, not Languages (though Scripts can be mapped to Languages).</p> <p>I do realize this will be a many-to-many table (since many languages use characters from multiple blocks, and many blocks are used by multiple languages); I do realize this cannot be precisely answered since Unicode codepoints are not language specific -- however, neither can the question of "what languages are there in this country" (answer is probably "most of them" for most countries), yet a table like this (<a href="http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-tmp/trunk/diff/supplemental/territory_language_information.html">http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-tmp/trunk/diff/supplemental/territory_language_information.html</a>) is still possible to create, meaningful and useful.</p> <p>As to <em>why</em> I'd want such a thing: I would like to enhance <a href="http://unicodinator.com">http://unicodinator.com</a> with global heat-maps for the code blocks, and lists of languages; I also have a game concept I am tinkering with. Beyond that, there are probably many other uses other people could have for this (font creation? heuristic, quick, best-guess language detection now that the Google Translate API is going away? research projects?).</p>
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    1. COWhat about blocks that can belong to multiple languages?
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    2. COyes @Ignacio, there will definitely be a many to many relationship.
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    3. COI don't think this is answerable. Consider words borrowed from other languages. English doesn't normally have accents, but you'll find "résumé" in any English dictionary.
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