Localization: How to map culture info to a script name or Unicode character range?

Question

I need some information about localization. I am using .net 2.0 with C# 2.0 which takes care of most of the localization related issues. However, I need to manually draw the

Answer 1

Chinese has thousands of characters, so it might not be feasible to show all the characters in their character set. There's no native concept of 'alphabet' in Chinese, and I don't think Chinese has a syllabary like Japanese does.

Pinyin (Chinese written in roman alphabet) can be used to represent the Chinese characters, and that might help you index them. I know this doesn't answer your question, but I hope it's helpful.