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Re: CHAT: An introduction

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Sunday, August 1, 2004, 20:08
Philip Newton scripsit:

> Anything wrong with ISO 8859-4 (Latin-4, North European, n-cedilla at > 0xF1), ISO 8859-10 (Latin-6, Nordic, n-cedilla at 0xF1), or ISO > 8859-13 (Latin-7, Baltic Rim, n-cedilla at 0xF2)?
Basically all of them are very little used; it turned out that Europeans wanted to be European, not regional, which is why Turkish uses 8859-9 (Latin-5), a variant of Latin-1 with the Icelandic charactres replaced by Turkish ones, rather than the Latin-3 they were originally supposed to use. AFAIK nobody uses Latin-3 now except for Esperanto and perhaps Maltese. Probably the best accepted is Latin-7, and even that is not very well accepted either. -- So that's the tune they play on John Cowan their fascist banjos, is it? cowan@ccil.org --Great-Souled Sam http://www.ccil.org/~cowan