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While messages consisting of all possible Unicode characters can be sent using Ahoy, the message length is very small by default when UTF-8 or UTF-16 encodings are being used. In order to enable longer messages, specialized language packs can be defined to squeeze the most out of the available space and provide longer messages.

The following languages are already supported or about to be supported if they're not published yet. If your language is marked as draft, please take the time to review it and provide feedback. If your language is missing, write to info@nhcham.org.

ID	Language		Status	Character count			Huffman trees	Message length	Pack size
				total	important	prefix
afr	Afrikaans	Afrikaans	published – see details	161	99	72	200	43 – 60	29.6 kB
als	Tosk	Tosk	rough draft – input required	240	106	78	200	43 – 57	25.4 kB
ara	العربية	Arabic	published – see details	1394	108	108	300	43 – 55	44.7 kB
azj	azərbaycanca	Azerbaijani	rough draft – input required	151	96	65	400	40 – 56	31.9 kB
bak	башҡортса	Bashkir	rough draft – input required	562	117	80	400	30 – 58	47.7 kB
bel	беларуская	Belarusian	rough draft – input required	554	98	65	300	43 – 56	37.5 kB
bos	bosanski	Standard Bosnian	rough draft – input required	181	103	69	200	43 – 55	31.1 kB
bre	brezhoneg	Breton	rough draft – input required	438	136	106	200	43 – 58	28.4 kB
bul	български	Bulgarian	rough draft – input required	188	93	62	200	43 – 57	26.3 kB
cat	català	Catalan	rough draft – input required	174	109	75	200	46 – 60	30.6 kB
ceb	Cebuano	Cebuano	rough draft – input required	99	82	56	200	45 – 64	19.3 kB
ces	česky	Czech	rough draft – input required	191	119	77	300	41 – 53	44.0 kB
cym	Cymraeg	Welsh	rough draft – input required	204	124	80	200	44 – 57	23.0 kB
dan	dansk	Danish	rough draft – input required	194	98	67	250	45 – 59	34.1 kB
deu	Deutsch	German	published – see details	195	104	73	200	43 – 58	31.9 kB
eng	English	English	published – see details	180	94	66	200	43 – 58	30.3 kB
epo	Esperanto	Esperanto	rough draft – input required	376	176	122	200	40 – 57	40.8 kB
est	eesti	Estonian	rough draft – input required	204	103	71	250	43 – 56	35.2 kB
eus	euskara	Basque	rough draft – input required	157	89	61	200	44 – 61	27.5 kB
fas	فارسی	Persian	published – see details	1393	93	93	400	42 – 55	48.6 kB
fin	suomi	Finnish	rough draft – input required	324	141	102	200	42 – 56	31.6 kB
fra	français	French	published – see details	180	112	76	200	43 – 59	32.2 kB
gom	Konkani	Konkani	rough draft – input required	105	84	58	200	42 – 58	21.0 kB
guj	ગુજરાતી	Gujarati	rough draft – input required	197	113	113	400	41 – 54	50.3 kB
heb	עברית	Hebrew	rough draft – input required	266	97	97	250	42 – 51	28.2 kB
hin	हिन्दी	Hindi	published – see details	261	112	112	400	41 – 56	49.5 kB
hrv	hrvatski	Croatian	rough draft – input required	321	137	100	250	43 – 55	37.4 kB
ido	Ido	Ido	rough draft – input required	194	93	67	200	41 – 81	17.5 kB
ind	Bahasa Indonesia	Indonesian	rough draft – input required	129	84	58	200	45 – 61	26.9 kB
isl	íslenska	Icelandic	rough draft – input required	166	105	69	250	43 – 58	32.8 kB
ita	italiano	Italian	published – see details	182	104	74	200	45 – 60	30.6 kB
jpn	日本語	Japanese	rough draft – input required	611	277	277	400	35 – 53	49.3 kB
kal	kalaallisut	Greenlandic	rough draft – input required	132	94	65	200	43 – 67	18.8 kB
kat	ქართული	Georgian	rough draft – input required	239	62	62	250	44 – 57	25.2 kB
kaz	қазақша	Kazakh	rough draft – input required	619	117	76	300	40 – 57	44.9 kB
kir	Кыргызча	Kyrgyz	rough draft – input required	573	104	72	300	38 – 58	37.8 kB
kor	한국어	Korean	rough draft – input required	11998	1573	1573	50	23 – 30	151.4 kB
kur	Kurdî	Kurdish	rough draft – input required	1340	71	71	200	48 – 62	24.8 kB
lat	Latina	Latin	rough draft – input required	203	127	82	200	41 – 57	22.7 kB
lav	Latviešu	Latvian	rough draft – input required	264	121	84	300	41 – 54	35.9 kB
lit	lietuvių	Lithuanian	rough draft – input required	183	111	76	300	43 – 56	41.2 kB
ltz	Lëtzebuergesch	Luxembourgish	rough draft – input required	245	111	80	250	44 – 57	30.0 kB
lus	Mizo ţawng	Mizo	rough draft – input required	115	92	66	200	43 – 61	22.6 kB
mal	മലയാളം	Malayalam	rough draft – input required	216	95	95	500	45 – 61	53.7 kB
mar	मराठी	Marathi	rough draft – input required	248	109	109	500	42 – 58	57.7 kB
mkd	македонски	Macedonian	rough draft – input required	531	96	65	200	44 – 58	29.4 kB
mlg	Malagasy	Malagasy	rough draft – input required	167	96	70	200	47 – 67	24.3 kB
mlt	Malti	Maltese	rough draft – input required	122	93	63	200	43 – 57	20.4 kB
mon	монгол	Mongolian	rough draft – input required	531	99	65	250	41 – 58	29.1 kB
mri	Māori	Māori	rough draft – input required	217	133	100	100	50 – 67	15.9 kB
msa	Malay	Malay	published – see details	117	81	55	200	46 – 63	26.7 kB
nep	नेपाली	Nepali	rough draft – input required	242	104	104	500	43 – 58	58.4 kB
new	नेपाल भाषा	Nepal Bhasa	rough draft – input required	237	101	101	500	38 – 82	34.6 kB
nno	norsk nynorsk	Norwegian Nynorsk	rough draft – input required	369	156	114	200	43 – 57	32.6 kB
nob	norsk bokmål	Norwegian Bokmål	rough draft – input required	167	102	71	200	42 – 59	29.6 kB
oci	occitan	Occitan	rough draft – input required	211	105	73	200	42 – 58	20.7 kB
pol	polski	Polish	published – see details	173	110	73	300	43 – 56	39.4 kB
por	português	Portuguese	published – see details	188	109	73	200	45 – 59	31.2 kB
rus	русский	Russian	published – see details	551	97	65	300	41 – 55	41.4 kB
slk	slovenčina	Slovak	rough draft – input required	203	126	82	200	41 – 51	28.8 kB
slv	slovenščina	Slovene	rough draft – input required	172	100	68	200	44 – 56	28.9 kB
som	Soomaaliga	Somali	rough draft – input required	134	85	58	200	47 – 63	26.1 kB
spa	español	Spanish	published – see details	204	104	72	200	46 – 60	30.9 kB
srp	српски	Standard Serbian	rough draft – input required	580	93	63	250	43 – 55	32.5 kB
swa	Kiswahili	Swahili	published – see details	105	84	59	200	44 – 63	17.8 kB
swe	svenska	Swedish	rough draft – input required	167	102	71	200	43 – 58	28.6 kB
tam	தமிழ்	Tamil	published – see details	214	75	75	400	46 – 64	36.6 kB
tat	татарча	Tatar	rough draft – input required	517	110	74	400	44 – 59	42.1 kB
tel	తెలుగు	Telugu	rough draft – input required	192	122	122	500	42 – 56	55.4 kB
tgk	тоҷикӣ	Tajik	rough draft – input required	540	110	74	300	39 – 57	43.5 kB
tgl	Tagalog	Tagalog	rough draft – input required	122	83	57	200	45 – 62	26.9 kB
tha	ไทย	Thai	rough draft – input required	196	115	115	400	36 – 58	61.3 kB
tur	Türkçe	Turkish	published – see details	212	129	87	300	38 – 57	49.7 kB
ukr	українська	Ukrainian	rough draft – input required	584	100	66	300	41 – 54	41.4 kB
urd	اردو	Urdū	rough draft – input required	1384	107	107	300	41 – 57	45.8 kB
uzb	oʻzbekcha	Uzbek	rough draft – input required	553	159	99	400	42 – 56	55.1 kB
vie	Tiếng Việt	Vietnamese	rough draft – input required	259	183	123	500	45 – 62	45.6 kB

Number crunching performed by equus, merci beaucoup!

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