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- From: unrza3@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: ISO 8859-X What are the X's?
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 19:15:44 +0100
- Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
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- 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?
-
- I wrote a FAQ about ISO standards that is posted periodically to
- comp.protocols.iso and comp.std.misc. This FAQ also contains a list
- of the ISO 8859 parts and other ISO standards relevant to computing.
- Perhaps I should add comp.std.internat to the distribution list?
-
- BTW: All the ISO 8859 parts have been derived from previous ECMA
- standards. ECMA has recently published the Latin 6 character set
- for the baltic and other north european countries. I bet it is
- already on the fasttrack procedure to ISO 8859-10.
-
- Markus
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