Which language a pack has to be in, by market
Which language leads on the pack decides how much of the market can read what it is buying.
125 markets · 990 underlying records · verified September 9, 2026 · Unicode Consortium
40 of 125 markets give the same answer: 2 official languages on one pack. The next most common, in 22: no language reaches half the country. 44 distinct answers across the table, and the ones that depart from the common case are the ones worth planning around.
Where this comes from
Every row links to its own entry, which carries the evidence, the confidence and the date it was last checked. The method behind all of it is on how the index is made, and reuse terms are on the licence page. Take the table: surface-label-language.csv — every row with its market code, its record and the source, so it can be checked after it has been pasted somewhere else.
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