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Started by Frank Vance
Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:58
ISO 8859-X What are the X's?
Author: Frank Vance
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:58
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:58
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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 Fax: +1.713.963.2758 Houston, TX 77042 USA
Re: ISO 8859-X What are the X's?
Author: Andrew Hume
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:17
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)
Re: ISO 8859-X What are the X's?
Author: Markus Kuhn
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:15
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:15
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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 -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Science student -=-=- University of Erlangen, Germany Internet: mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de | X.500 entry available ----- Anyone participating in the use of MS-DOS, Heroin or Cocaine is ----- ---- simply not getting the most out of life possible. (Brian Downing) ----
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