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Article #296Re: Estonian standard EVS 8:1993
From: Andrej Brodnik Andy
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1993 21:45
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 110cdc,5614839bf0cebaa1,start X-Google-Attributes: gid110cdc,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-11-18 13:45:39 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!news.dfn.de!darwin.sura.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!paladin.american.edu!news.univie.ac.at!aci.cvut.cz!rhino.cis.vutbr.cz!gateway From: abrodnik@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (Andrej Brodnik Andy) Newsgroups: bit.software.international Subject: Re: Estonian standard EVS 8:1993 Date: 18 Nov 1993 22:45:39 +0100 Organization: Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic Lines: 29 Sender: root@rhino.cis.vutbr.cz Approved: insoft-l-moderator@cis.vutbr.cz Message-ID: <2cgqe3$eea@rhino.cis.vutbr.cz> Reply-To: <insoft-l@cis.vutbr.cz>