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From: Philippe.Deschamp@Nuri.INRIA.Fr
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Polyglot List Issue (Really: Does Latin-1 cover Western Europe ?)
Summary: No, it does not.
Keywords: \oe, Latin-1, ISO 8859-1
Message-ID: <1840@seti.inria.fr>
Date: 17 Jan 91 16:39:14 GMT
References: <6600@alpha.cam.nist.gov> <GISLE.91Jan14232159@kyrre.uio.no> <7828@castle.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <6600@alpha.cam.nist.gov>, koontz@cam.nist.gov (John E.
Koontz X5180) writes:
|> From:    macrakis@gr.osf.org
|> Subject: 8-bit cleaning, Unicode, etc.
...
|> 6) Latin-1 does indeed cover all of Western Europe, but does <<not>>
|>    cover Greek, and therefore does not cover all the EEC.

In article <GISLE.91Jan14232159@kyrre.uio.no>, gisle@ifi.uio.no (Gisle
Hannemyr) replies:
|> 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.

In article <7828@castle.ed.ac.uk>, yfcw14@castle.ed.ac.uk (K P Donnelly) adds:
|> Latin-1 does not cover Welsh, which has something like 300 thousand or
|> 400 thousand speakers.  Wales is both in the EEC and in Western Europe.

   Latin-1 does not cover the french language, which is used in France
and other countries (maybe mainly in other countries :-).  It lacks
the "oe" ligatures (\oe and \OE of TeX).  Last time I looked at a map,
France was in Western Europe...
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