Also known as North Sámi. The most common of the
languages of
the
Sámi people. It belongs to the
Finno-Ugric language family, and
is closely related to
Finnish and
Estonian. The language has
special status in
Norway, and (I believe) in other
Nordic countries
as well.
Sámi computing currently suffers from a lack of
standardization. The special characters needed for Davvi Sámi can
be found in the ISO 10646 (Unicode), in the ISO 8859-10, in a
character set developed especially for the Apple Macintosh, and
in one or two separate, private standards, whose names I can't
remember.
Support for Sámi word processing is actually so poor that some government
agencies have to send letters that are spelt incorrectly due
to their computer equipment lacking proper support for the Davvi Sámi
character set.