jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) (01/15/91)
Could somebody tell me what the ISO standard Turkish alphabet is? Or, at least, the codes for the non-ASCII characters. -- -- Jack Campin Computing Science Department, Glasgow University, 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland 041 339 8855 x6044 work 041 556 1878 home JANET: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk BANG!net: via mcsun and ukc FAX: 041 330 4913 INTERNET: via nsfnet-relay.ac.uk BITNET: via UKACRL UUCP: jack@glasgow.uucp
hubey@pilot.njin.net (Hubey) (01/17/91)
In article <7414@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes: > Could somebody tell me what the ISO standard Turkish alphabet is? > > Or, at least, the codes for the non-ASCII characters. > > -- > Jack Campin Computing Science Department, Glasgow University, 17 Lilybank Someone had posted someting along these lines to TEL once. I looked around my files but I couldn't find it. Is there anyone who has any ideas about this. What I remember was that there was a proposal for one of the ISO alphabets to have some Turkish characters in lieu of some characters from the Scandinavian-Danish character set. Does anyone have any ideas on this ?? -- hubey@pilot.njin.net | hubey@apollo.montclair.edu | ...!rutgers!pilot!hubey
lasko@regent.dec.com (Tim Lasko, Digital Equipment Corp., Westford, MA) (01/18/91)
In article <7414@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>, jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes... >Could somebody tell me what the ISO standard Turkish alphabet is? There isn't an "ISO standard Turkish alphabet". However, ISO 8859-9 (Information processing -- 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -- Part 9: Latin Alphabet No. 5; note the difference in numbers) is the member of the ISO 8859 family of eight-bit codes designed to represent Turkish text. ISO 8859-9 was based on ECMA standard ECMA-128 which was based on a Turkish industrial standard whose number I no longer have in my notes. As another poster suggested, it is very similar to ISO 8859-1 (ISO Latin Alphabet No 1). Differences from ISO 8859-1 are as follows: 13/00 CAPITAL LATIN LETTER G WITH BREVE 13/13 CAPITAL LATIN LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE 13/14 CAPITAL LATIN LETTER S WITH CEDILLA 15/00 SMALL LATIN LETTER g WITH BREVE 15/13 SMALL LATIN LETTER i WITHOUT DOT 15/14 SMALL LATIN LETTER s WITH CEDILLA The capital and small ICELANDIC LETTER ETH, ICELANDIC LETTER THORN, and LATIN LETTER Y WITH ACUTE ACCENT are removed. [ISO 8859-3 also was designed for this purpose but no one likes it very much. This code was originally developed in Turkey to be as similar as possible to ISO 8859-1 to leverage off of the wide support for ISO Latin-1. There are occasional attempts to get this code to be the "favored" (in lieu of ISO 8859-1) eight-bit code in various standards forums, none successful to date, to my knowledge.] Tim Lasko, Digital Equipment Corp., Westford MA (lasko@regent.dec.com) Disclaimer: My opinions are my own; the facts can speak for themselves.