From: Tulasi (tulasird@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Jun 20 2010 - 15:22:41 CDT
Asmus -> ISO/IEC what?
Should be 8859-1 8859-2
So letters/symbols found in ISO/IEC 8859-1 ISO/IEC 8859-2 are
identical to corresponding letters/symbols in Unicode.
Moreover, the code-numbers as well as names for letters/symbols used
for ISO/IEC 8859-1 ISO/IEC 8859-2 are also identical in corresponding
Unicode.
Am I correct on above?
The link is useful Otto, thanks!
And John, my platform is WinXp from Versionsoft :) and I use Firefox.
Tulasi
From: Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:07:41 -0700
Subject: Re: Latin Script
To: Tulasi <tulasird@gmail.com>
Cc: Kenneth Whistler <kenw@sybase.com>, unicode@unicode.org
On 6/17/2010 7:24 PM, Tulasi wrote:
> What is equivalent ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC what?
There are hundreds of ISO/IEC standards, of which dozens are character
encoding standards.
> for "U+0278 LATIN SMALL LETTER PHI (ɸ)"?
> Or do Unicode & ISO/IEC use different number & name for same letter/symbol?
>
ISO/IEC 10646 uses the same number and name as Unicode for this.
A./
>
From: Otto Stolz <Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:41:49 +0200
Subject: Re: Latin Script
To: Tulasi <tulasird@gmail.com>
Cc: unicode@unicode.org
Hello Tulasi,
on 2010-06-18 04:24, you have asked:
> Or do Unicode & ISO/IEC use different number & name for same letter/symbol?
You might find enlightening the FAQ on “Unicode and ISO 10646”
<http://www.unicode.org/faq/unicode_iso.html>.
Best wishes,
Otto Stolz
From: John Dlugosz <JDlugosz@tradestation.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:00:25 -0400
Subject: RE: Latin Script
To: Tulasi <tulasird@gmail.com>
Cc: "vanisaac@boil.afraid.org" <vanisaac@boil.afraid.org>, Edward
Cherlin <echerlin@gmail.com>, "unicode@unicode.org"
<unicode@unicode.org>, Mark Davis ☕ <mark@macchiato.com>, Otto Stolz
<Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de>, Jonathan Rosenne <jr@qsm.co.il>,
"asmusf@ix.netcom.com" <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>
>
> 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 -> That's why we have Latin-1, Latin-2, etc.
I used glyph only without other information to emphasize the point.
What platform are you on? If reading in a web app under Firefox, use
the "Identify Characters" extension. If using Windows, SC Unipad is a
good program you can use to paste into and see the makeup in detail.
--John
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' ?
- Hide quoted text -
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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