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Re: Latin-2 character set

#982
From: Bruce Sherwood
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1989 14:42
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I'm only too well aware that the Latin-3 character shapes aren't going to show
up in a mail message on most computers!  But there are listings in the ISO
documents of the names of the characters.  E.g., "small letter s with cedilla."
Here is the full listing of languages given in the ISO documents.

Latin-1:  Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic,
Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish.  Note that while
Latin-1 is sometimes referred to as handling West European languages, it doesn't
handle Catalan (see Latin-3) or Welsh (as I understand it, not handled by any
ISO-8859 set), and maybe other non-national but existing languages of West
Europe.

Latin-2:  Albanian, Czech, English, German, Hungarian, Polish, Rumanian,
Serbocroatian, Slovak, Slovene.

Latin-3:  Afrikaans, Catalan, Dutch, English, Esperanto, German, Italian,
Maltese, Spanish, Turkish.  Note that Dutch, German, Italian, and Spanish are
also covered by Latin-1.

Latin-4:  Danish, Estonian, English, Finnish, German, Greenlandic, Lappish,
Latvian, Lithuanian, Swedish, Norwegian.  Again, note the many overlaps with
Latin-1.

5) Cyrillic.

6) Arabic.

7) Greek.

8) Hebrew.

Bruce Sherwood
bas@andrew.cmu.edu  or  bas@andrew.bitnet
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Subject: Re: Latin-2 character set
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