From: Erkki I. Kolehmainen (eik@iki.fi)
Date: Thu Jul 17 2008 - 05:41:04 CDT
MES-2 is part of a CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA 13873, IT - Multilingual
European Subsets in ISO/IEC 10646-1), never meant to become a full blown
standard per se, available at
http://www.cen.eu/cenorm/sectors/sectors/isss/cen+workshop+agreements/multil
ingual+eur+subsets.asp. In the UCS standard ISO/IEC 10646, it is defined as
Collection 282. IMHO, MES-2 is imperfect and somewhat outdated, but WGL4 is
much more so.
Regards,
Erkki I. Kolehmainen
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Puolesta Otto Stolz
Lähetetty: 17. heinäkuuta 2008 11:04
Vastaanottaja: David Starner
Kopio: Unicode Mailing List; Jonathan Woodburn
Aihe: Re: Looking for code ranges on specific languages.
Hello,
David Starner schrieb:
> if you're including Chinese, you shouldn't need to worry about
> individual Latin-using languages; just toss in MES-2
> (<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/mes-2-rationale.html>), which
> will cover every major Latin/Greek/Cyrillic using language in the
> world, at the cost of a measly 1000 characters.
IIRC; MES 2 has not succeeded in becoming a standard, or otherwise being
widely recognized. Does anybody know more details?
Another, widely used, collection of pan-European characters is WGL4
<http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/WGL4.htm>. Though not an
international standard, either, it has been established as a quasi standard,
as WGL4 capable fonts are included with every Windows system sold in Europe.
Best wishes,
Otto Stolz
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