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Article #928Re: International Language Support
From: Bruce Sherwood
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 1988 15:16
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 1988 15:16
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To repeat a major complaint I have about ISO 8859 (which I'm distressed to see is a component of NLS): This standard is based on nations rather than languages. So the West European version doesn't handle Welsh or Catalan or Esperanto (which don't have their own nations). The older standard, ISO 6937, was based on forty Latin-alphabet-using languages, not on nations. So it handled just about everything (except for Vietnamese) including Welsh and Catalan and Esperanto. ISO 8859 is a MAJOR step backward in terms of linguistic equality. Bruce Sherwood
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