Otto Stolz wrote:
> ISO 8859-1 lacks the Euro currency symbol (U+20AC), needed all over
> Europe (this currency is legal tender in 15 European countries:
> cf. <http://www.euro.ecb.int/> plus the Republic of San Marino,
> the Vatican City and the Principality of Monaco). [...]
And Andorra.
But also countries which did not adopt the euro probably need the symbol.
E.g., UK, Switzerland, Denmark. etc.
> ISO 8859-1 lacks the oe-ligature for French(!), [...]
And the capital form of "ÿ", which is however very rare in French.
> and some characters for Sami (IIRC), a minority language spoken
> in Finland.
And some rare characters for Finnish itself: "č", "š", and "ž".
> Btw., German law entitles every natural person to demand his/her
> name to be spelled correctly [...]
Talking about Germany, ISO 8859-1 lacks some characters for Turkish, the 2nd
most spoken language in the country.
_ Marco
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