Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!ugle.unit.no!nuug!ifi!gisle From: gisle@ifi.uio.no (Gisle Hannemyr) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Polyglot List Issue Message-ID: Date: 14 Jan 91 22:22:07 GMT References: <6600@alpha.cam.nist.gov> Sender: gisle@ifi.uio.no (Gisle Hannemyr) Organization: University of Oslo, Norway Lines: 26 Nntp-Posting-Host: kyrre.ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: koontz@cam.nist.gov's message of 14 Jan 91 16:27:18 GMT Originator: gisle@kyrre.ifi.uio.no > Date: Fri, 11 Jan 91 17:26:45 +0100 > From: macrakis@gr.osf.org > Subject: 8-bit cleaning, Unicode, etc. > > 6) Latin-1 does indeed cover all of Western Europe, but does <> > cover Greek, and therefore does not cover all the EEC. Latin-1 (ISO 8859/1) does NOT cover "lappish", which is a minority language used by the Lapps in Norway, Sweden and Finland. As the Nordic countries are usually considered part of Western Europe, Latin-1 does not cover all of Western Europe. Lappish is covered by Latin-4 (ISO 8859/4). -- Disclaimer: The opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of my employer, not necessarily mine, and probably not necessary. - gisle hannemyr (Norwegian Computing Center) EAN: C=no;PRMD=uninett;O=nr;S=Hannemyr;G=Gisle (X.400 SA format) gisle.hannemyr@nr.no (RFC-822 format) Inet: gisle@ifi.uio.no UUCP: ...!mcsun!ifi!gisle ------------------------------------------------