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Re: Estonian standard EVS 8:1993

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From: Andrej Brodnik Andy
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1993 21:45
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> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 14:26:07 -0400
> From: Olle Jarnefors <ojarnef@admin.kth.se>
> Subject: Estonian standard EVS 8:1993
>
> Yesterday I received a new Estonian standard for IT requirements
> in Estonia, EVS 8:1993.
>
> It contains four new 8-bit character sets where the four
> Estonian letters S with caron and Z with caron have been
> included. These are variants of ISO 8859-1, IBM PC Code Page
> 850, IBM EBCDIC Code Page 278, and the Microsoft Windows
> extension of ISO 8859-1. In the first three S with caron
> replaces Eth and Z with caron replaces Thorn. In the Windows
> character set S and s with caron are in positions 8A and 9A, Z
> and z with caron in 8D and 9D. (I haven't access to the original
> Microsoft code page, not even its CP number, so I can't say
> which characters are replaced by these Estonian letters, if
> any.)

These two letters are already included in Latin-2 standard. Does that mean
that Latin-2 does not include all other Estonian characters?

All the best,

Andrej
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From: abrodnik@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (Andrej Brodnik Andy)
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Subject: Re: Estonian standard EVS 8:1993
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