Unofficial alphabet lists for Lojban/Latin/English, Greek, and Russian

[Guy Steele <cbmvax!uunet!THINK.COM!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!gls>]

If you guys are going to get serious about providing names for every
character in the world, you might avoid duplication of effort by
studying the various ISO standards for national and international
character sets in a systematic manner rather than taking a hodgepodge
approach.  There is also a fairly recent proposal called Unicode,
which attempts to provide a single 16-bit computer code that covers
all the world's alphabets.  You can buy a copy of the draft proposal
in the form of a book (about 2 inches thick) from Addison-Wesley.
Yes, it covers Devanagari, Japanese kana, and han (Chinese characters,
known as kanji to the Japanese), Bopomofo, Turkish, Russian, Greek,
Zapf Dingbats, ...  I believe there are only a few tens of thousands
of characters (plenty of room for expansion).

--Guy Steele