Re: UK (and Church Slavonic and Glagolitic character sets)

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In message <9711281918.AA03553@unicode.org> Doug Ewell
<dewell@compuserve.com> writes via unicode@unicode.org:

> I suspect that compatibility with existing coded character sets had
> a lot to do with encoding U+03C2 and U+03C3 separately. After all,
> there are plenty of coded character sets for Greek and Hebrew, but
> not many for Old Church Slavonic. Is this correct?

There is the ISO 6861 character set standard: this provides codings
for Church Slavonic and Glagolitic characters.

This was developed by ISO/TC46/SC4/WG1.

Best wishes

John Clews

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