Re: ISO standards (see Ada95 chpt. 1.2)

[stt@spock.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)]

Ivan B. Cvar (ibc@ocsystems.com) wrote:

: Tucker Taft (stt@spock.camb.inmet.com ) writes:
: > 
: > http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ has everything you could want.
: > 
: That's a great Web page, but I couldn't find anything about the contents 
: of ISO 10646-1:1993 in there.  The Ada-95 RM, chapter 2.1(4,5,8,9) mentions
: Row 00 of ISO 10646 in many places, but the RM doesn't say what that means.
: I'd hate to waste $373 to find out that Row 00 is only a cryptic way of
: referring to a subset of Ada.Characters.Latin_1.  What is this mysterious
: Row 00?

Row 00 represents the first 256 characters of ISO 10646, and is
in exact correspondence with what is called Latin-1, which is defined
by ISO 8859-1.  Ada.Characters.Latin_1 provides names for the
various characters of Latin-1.  You may eventually have to shell out
the money for ISO 10646 if you are going to "play" in the modern
multi-lingual world.  The Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) of ISO-10646 
is equivalent to (revised) "Unicode," and you may be able to get
documents more cheaply from the Unicode consortium.

: BTW, ANSI, in New York City, quoted me these prices for the ISO standards
: listed in Ada-95 RM, chapter 1.2:

: $US Pages  ISO_Standard_#    Description
: ---+----+----------------+----------------------------------
: $373 754 ISO 10646-1:1993 Univ. Character Set (UCS) - Part 1 Arch. & BMP    
:  $37   7 ISO  8859-1:1987 8-bit graphic character sets -- Latin-1 alphabet   
: $123  89 ISO    6429:1992 Control functions for coded character sets         
:  $52  15 ISO     646:1991 ISO 7-bit ASCII character set                      
: $224 369 ISO    1539:1991 Prog. languages - FORTRAN            
: $224 369 ISO    1539:1991 Prog. languages - FORTRAN                          
:  $13   1 ISO    1989:1985 Prog. languages - COBOL (Endorsement of ANSI std)  
: $266 511 ISO    8652:1995 Prog. languages - Ada                             
: $166 219 ISO    9899:1990 Prog. languages - C                  

: ...Ivan

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