The Northern Sámi parser is localised with UTF-8, as it should be. In our web interface there is a filter to let users feed in c1, d1, s1, etc, instead of the correct Sámi letters. Output to the user is in UTF-8.

Lule Sámi can adequately be represented in 8-bit format, by Latin 1 (Lule Sámi files can use ñ for n-acute). In order to have only one localisation interface for the languages we work on, Lule Sámi has been moved to UTF-8 as well. There is a script, spell-relax.regex, which makes it possible to use both ñ, ń and ŋ.

Also Southern Sámi can be represented in 8-bit format, by Latin 1, but just as for Lule Sámi, it is stored in UTF-8. The script spell-relax.regex is used for Southern Sámi as well, but with a slightly different purpose: It is used to accept the wide-spread sloppy use of i for ï.

Inari Sámi, Skolt and Kildin Sámi are repesented in Unicode. For Kildin Sámi, note that the latin-like letters we use are actually Cyrillic ones.

All our other languages are in UTF-8 as well.

Note that for Iñupiaq, we do not use the wide-spread 8-bit Interactive IñupiaQ Dictionary encoding, as it has placed the Iñupiaq characters in the ASCII area. There is a converter on the Iñupiaq page.