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- From: andrew@alice.att.com (Andrew Hume)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: ISO 8859-X What are the X's?
- Summary: a start
- Keywords: ISO 8859
- Message-ID: <24509@alice.att.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 03:17:50 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.24509
- References: <1739@airgun.wg.waii.com>
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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
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- 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:
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- 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)
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