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From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: UNICODE - non-Asian
Date: 1998/05/22
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In article <dewar.895708219@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

 > I am not sure what encodings are standard for Hebrew, someone here should
 > know. I am a little suprised if we don't support it already, since we
 > have a number of customers in Israel, and this subject has not come up :-)

  Latin/Hebrew ISO/IEC 8859-8 of course.  There are ten defined
sub-parts of 8859, Latin-1 is the first, covering almost all of
Western Europe, while Latin-2 is used by some central European
countries, etc.  There are four sets which cover other scripts,
Latin/Cyrillic, Latin/Greek, Latin/Arabic, and Latin/Hebrew.

  The "parts" of 8859 and their names:

ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998 Latin 1  (Yes, that is 1998!)
ISO/IEC 8859-2:1987 Latin 2  
ISO/IEC 8859-3:1988 Latin 3  
ISO/IEC 8859-4:1988 Latin 4
ISO/IEC 8859-5:1988 Latin/Cyrillic
ISO/IEC 8859-6:1987 Latin/Arabic
ISO/IEC 8859-7:1987 Latin/Greek
ISO/IEC 8859-8:1988 Latin/Hebrew
ISO/IEC 8859-9:1989 Latin 5
ISO/IEC 8859-10:1992 Latin 6

    Currently, there are three new parts under DIS balloting, 13,
14,and 15.  They are Latin 7, Latin 8 (Celtic), and Latin 0,
respectively.  Parts 2 through 10 currently are also being revised,
but I think that these revisions, and the recent revision to Latin-1
were to bring the documents up to date without significant changes.

   Incidentally, ISO 10646-1:1993 (Basic Multilingual Plane/Unicode)
now has two corrigenda and 19 amendments.  Aren't standards wonderful!

  Trivia question: What English letters were removed from Latin-1 in
the original 1987 version?  

  Real Trivia question: What English letter is not in Unicode?




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					Robert I. Eachus

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