Re: C-IPA
| From: | Garth Wallace <gwalla@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 1, 2003, 18:53 |
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Joe wrote:
> On Saturday 01 March 2003 8:49 am, Tristan wrote:
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>>Joe wrote:
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>>>Isn't there an ISCII?
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>>Yeah, but it's Indian, not International.
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> If everyone used ISO-8859, it would be a lot easier. Does anyone actually use
> plain ASCII anymore, anyway?
Only on legacy hardware, AFAICT.
ISO-8859 isn't a single charset, it's several. You're probably thinking
of ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1), which is the West European charset (with
characters like the thorn, edh, vowels with acute accents, etc.). But
there are some languages that use Latin-based alphabets with characters
and diacritics that aren't in Latin-1 (Polish, with its haceks over s,
barred Ls, As with tails, etc. is one), so there are several other
ISO-8859 charsets for those. This page gives the lowdown:
http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html