Candidate Languages vs Unlikely Locales

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It might be worth trying to work out which language can't be implemented in ALAN, for one reason or another, and list them somewhere (in the repo, Wiki, etc.) so that end user who might wish to add a new locale might be made aware of unsupported languages.

The reasons why a language might not be implementable are:

• Lack of characters support.
• Known grammatical/morphological issues that can't be (currently) handled in ALAN.

Charset Limitations

Since ALAN only guarantees for ISO-8859-1 encoded adventures, it should be safe to state that all languages which have their alphabet fully covered by ISO-8859-1 should be implementable, unless some grammar problems can't be handled by the ALAN language.

NOTE — Obviously, if a language with non Latin alphabet can be transliterated using Latin-1, then it might also be implementable (which is how Internet chats were handled in the pre-Unicode era).

Languages Fully Covered by ISO-8859-1

According to Wikipedia, the following languages are fully covered by ISO-8859-1:

Language	Endonym	ISO 639-1	Notes
Afrikaans	Afrikaans	af
Albanian	Shqip	sq
Basque	euskara	eu
Breton	brezhoneg	br
Corsican	corsu	co
English	English	en
Faroese	føroyskt	fo
Galician	Galego	gl
Icelandic	Íslenska	is
Irish	Gaeilge	ga
Indonesian	Bahasa	id
Italian	Italiano	it
Leonese	???	none	Basic classical orthography
Luxembourgish	Lëtzebuergesch	lb
Malay	മലയാളം	ml	Rumi script
Manx	Gaelg	gv
Norwegian	Norsk	no	Bokmål and Nynorsk
Occitan	lenga d'òc	oc
Portuguese	Português	pt	European and Brazilian
Romansh	Rumantsch Grischun	rm
Scottish Gaelic	Gàidhlig	gd
Scots	???	none
Southern Sami	???	none
Spanish/Castilian	Español	es
Swahili	Kiswahili	sw
Swedish	Svenska	sv
Tagalog	Wikang Tagalog	tl
Walloon	Walon	wa

Languages Partially Covered by ISO-8859-1

According to Wikipedia, the following languages are only partially covered by ISO-8859-1:

Language	Missing chars	Workaround
Catalan	Ŀ, ŀ (deprecated)	L·, l·
Danish	Ǿ, ǿ (accent is optional, ǿ is very rare)	Ø, ø or øe
Dutch	IJ, ij (debatable status); j́ in emphasized words like "blíj́f"	digraphs IJ, ij; blíjf
Estonian	Š, š, Ž, ž (only present in loanwords)	Sh, sh, Zh, zh
Finnish	Š, š, Ž, ž (only present in loanwords)	Sh, sh, Zh, zh
French	Œ, œ, and the very rare Ÿ	digraphs OE, oe; Y or Ý
German	ẞ (capital ß, used only in all capitals; optional)	digraph SS
Hungarian	Ő, ő, Ű, ű	Ö, ö, Ü, ü
Irish (traditional)	Ḃ, ḃ, Ċ, ċ, Ḋ, ḋ, Ḟ, ḟ, Ġ, ġ, Ṁ, ṁ, Ṗ, ṗ, Ṡ, ṡ, Ṫ, ṫ	Bh, bh, Ch, ch, Dh, dh, Fh, fh, Gh, gh, Mh, mh, Ph, ph, Sh, sh, Th, th
Kurdish	Ş, ş
Welsh	Ẁ, ẁ, Ẃ, ẃ, Ŵ, ŵ, Ẅ, ẅ, Ỳ, ỳ, Ŷ, ŷ, Ÿ	W, w, Y, y, Ý, ý

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References

• Wikipedia » ISO/IEC 8859-1
• Wikipedia » ISO 639-1