tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) (02/02/91)
Many people have given me information that allowed me to correct
the ISO 8859 table as follows:
ISO 8859 Standard Codesets
Codeset Name Coverage Approved
------ ----- -------- --------
8859-1 Latin-1 Western Europe 15 February 1987
8859-2 Latin-2 Eastern Europe 15 February 1987
8859-3 Latin-3 Southern? Europe 15 April 1988
8859-4 Latin-4 Baltic region 15 April 1988
8859-5 Cyrillic Slavic countries 1 December 1988
8859-6 Arabic Arab countries 15 August 1987
8859-7 Greek Greece 15 November 1987
8859-8 Hebrew Israel 1 June 1988
8859-9 Latin-5 8859-1 minus 15 May 1989
Iceland plus Turkey
Random network comments indicate that Latin-1 is widely implemented,
but this is not true of the others. Latin-3 may be for Maltese and
Esperanto, nobody seems to know for sure. And get this: they're now
working on Latin-6. This would be funny if it weren't true.ath@linkoping.telesoft.se (Anders Thulin) (02/03/91)
In article <7199@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) writes: >[...] Latin-3 may be for Maltese and Esperanto, nobody seems to know >for sure. Latin-3 covers at least: Maltese stung h, c with dot, g with dot, ... Esperanto h with circumflex, j with circumflex, ... Turkish I with dot, s with cedilla(?), g with smile, ... -- Anders Thulin ath@linkoping.telesoft.se Telesoft Europe AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden