Re: Latin Script

From: Doug Ewell (doug@ewellic.org)
Date: Sun Jun 27 2010 - 17:09:41 CDT

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    "Tulasi" <tulasird at gmail dot com> wrote:

    >> U+00AA FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR (which does not contain "LATIN") is
    >> considered part of the Latin script, while U+271D LATIN CROSS (which
    >> does) is considered common to all scripts.
    >
    > Can you post both symbols please, thanks?

    I can point you to http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf , which
    includes a glyph for U+00AA, and
    http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2700.pdf , which includes a glyph for
    U+271D. I don't think it's necessary to post these glyphs to the public
    list.

    > Trying to know who among ISO and Unicode first created the names' list
    > for Latin-script is not an indication of obsession :-')
    >
    > So among Unicode and ISO/IEC, who first created ISO/IEC 8859-1 &
    > ISO/IEC 8859-2 letters/symbols names with each name with LATIN in it?

    Most of the characters in the various parts of ISO 8859 were originally
    standardized before Unicode or ISO 10646, so the names were probably
    either created by the ISO/IEC subcommittees responsible for those parts,
    or found in earlier standards and adopted as-is.

    The merger between Unicode and ISO 10646 caused a few character names in
    Unicode to be changed to match the 10646 names.

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    Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org
    RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ is dot gd slash 2kf0s ­
    


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