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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?

I wrote a FAQ about ISO standards that is posted periodically to
comp.protocols.iso and comp.std.misc. This FAQ also contains a list
of the ISO 8859 parts and other ISO standards relevant to computing.
Perhaps I should add comp.std.internat to the distribution list?

BTW: All the ISO 8859 parts have been derived from previous ECMA
standards. ECMA has recently published the Latin 6 character set
for the baltic and other north european countries. I bet it is
already on the fasttrack procedure to ISO 8859-10.

Markus

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