Re: ISOs

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Mon Nov 10 1997 - 16:39:52 EST


Ar 13:06 -0800 1997-11-10, scríobh Kenneth Whistler:
>
>ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) Western Europe
>ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2) Eastern Europe
>ISO 8859-3 (Latin-3) Turkey (deprecated)
>ISO 8859-4 (Latin-4) Northern Europe
>ISO 8859-5 Cyrillic
>ISO 8859-6 Arabic
>ISO 8859-7 Greek
>ISO 8859-8 Hebrew
>ISO 8859-9 (Latin-5) Turkey
>ISO 8859-10 (Latin-6) Baltic Rim
>ISO 8859-11 Thai (suspended)

Thai has not been suspended, I don't think.

>ISO 8859-12 Devanagari (suspended)

8859-12 is currently unassigned.

>DIS 8859-13 (Latin-7) Baltic
>DIS 8859-14 (Latin-8) Celtic
>CD 8859-15 ("Latin-0") Western Europe
>
>Not all of these have been formally approved and published
>yet.

No, they are at DIS and CD stage. Or nearly so in the case of Latin "0",
which everyone pretends is not Latin 9.

>To get the formal list of languages intended for coverage,
>get a copy of one of the standards themselves, or perhaps
>someone else on this list would like to post a summary or
>a pointer.

Annex A of the 8859 standard summarizes this. I am doing an HTML version of
the current draft for 8849-14 (of which I am the editor) and will let you
know when it is up.

>Of course, ISO/IEC 10646 (Unicode) is intended to cover *all* of
>the languages and countries of the world.

Even the languages and countries of the Otherworld. ;-)

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