Re: Polyglot List Issue

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From: Gisle Hannemyr
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 1991 22:22

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>  Date:    Fri, 11 Jan 91 17:26:45 +0100
>  From:    macrakis@gr.osf.org
>  Subject: 8-bit cleaning, Unicode, etc.
>
>   6) Latin-1 does indeed cover all of Western Europe, but does <<not>>
>     cover Greek, and therefore does not cover all the EEC.

Latin-1 (ISO 8859/1) does NOT cover "lappish", which is a minority language
used by the Lapps in Norway, Sweden and Finland.  As the Nordic countries
are usually considered part of Western Europe, Latin-1 does not cover all
of Western Europe.

Lappish is covered by Latin-4 (ISO 8859/4).


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Subject: Re: Polyglot List Issue
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