Re: Latin Script

From: Tulasi (tulasird@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 17 2010 - 21:24:11 CDT

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    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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