From: Tulasi (tulasird@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 17 2010 - 21:24:11 CDT
Thanks Ken!
What is equivalent ISO/IEC for "U+0278 LATIN SMALL LETTER PHI (ɸ)"?
Or do Unicode & ISO/IEC use different number & name for same letter/symbol?
Tulasi
From: Kenneth Whistler <kenw@sybase.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:31:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Latin Script
To: tulasird@gmail.com
Cc: unicode@unicode.org
> John -> If I define a symbol (variable or constant) named ɸ and some
> user types 'φ' or 'ϕ' instead, it won't match.
>
> Can you please post the names for the other two, i.e., 'φ' or 'ϕ' ?
John was referring to:
U+0278 LATIN SMALL LETTER PHI
U+03C6 GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI
U+03D5 GREEK PHI SYMBOL
> John -> That's why we have Latin-1, Latin-2, etc.
>
> It looks like Latin-1 Latin-2 etc are sub sets of Latin, probably
> created by programmers/coders. Have I guessed correctly A./ ? :)
No. John is referring to:
ISO/IEC 8859-1, Latin alphabet No. 1
ISO/IEC 8859-2, Latin alphabet No. 2
Those are different 8-bit character encodings, with different
collections of Latin letters included. They were intended
to cover the character encoding needs for different sets
of languages, with Latin-1 aimed primarily at Western
European languages and Latin-2 aimed primarily at Eastern
European languages (with Latin orthographies).
Both of those 8-bit character encodings include many
punctuation and symbol characters other than just Latin
letters, so they aren't really subsets of the Latin
script at all.
--Ken
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