Re: ISO 8859-X What are the X's?

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From: Andrew Hume
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:17

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In article <1739@airgun.wg.waii.com>, fvance@airgun.wg.waii.com (Frank Vance) writes:
> Can someone provide a brief overview of what the various parts of ISO
> 8859 are?  By this I mean, if 8859-1 is "Western European" and
> -8 is "Hebrew" (as I have seen them called), what are the other parts?
> -- 
> Frank Vance  +1.713.963.2426		Western Geophysical
> fvance@airgun.wg.waii.com		10001 Richmond Avenue


	there is no convenient quick description; each standard has in it
a list of languages that can written using the characters therein.
the summaries given by plan 9's tcs command are:

	8859-1	Latin-1 (Central European)
	8859-2	Latin-2 (Czech .. Slovak)
	8859-3	Latin-3 (Dutch .. Turkish)
	8859-4	Latin-4 (Scandinavian)
	8859-5	Part 5 (Cyrillic)
	8859-6	Part 6 (Arabic)
	8859-7	Part 7 (Greek)
	8859-8	Part 8 (Hebrew)
	8859-9	Latin-5 (Finnish .. Portuguese)

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Subject: Re: ISO 8859-X What are the X's?
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