Re: International Language Support

Thread View: comp.std.internat

1 messages

[T] Back to Threads [V] Tree View [G] Group Articles

1 total messages Started by Bruce Sherwood Wed, 06 Apr 1988 15:16

#928

Author: Bruce Sherwood
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 1988 15:16

15 lines
978 bytes

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

Thread Navigation

This is a paginated view of messages in the thread with full content displayed inline.

Messages are displayed in chronological order, with the original post highlighted in green.

Use pagination controls to navigate through all messages in large threads.

Back to All Threads