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From: tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill)
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Subject: ISO 8859 Standards (Corrected)
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Date: 1 Feb 91 21:34:41 GMT
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Many people have given me information that allowed me to correct
the ISO 8859 table as follows:

	ISO 8859 Standard Codesets

Codeset  Name    Coverage          Approved
------  -----    --------          --------
8859-1  Latin-1  Western Europe    15 February 1987
8859-2  Latin-2  Eastern Europe    15 February 1987
8859-3  Latin-3  Southern? Europe  15 April 1988
8859-4  Latin-4  Baltic region     15 April 1988
8859-5  Cyrillic Slavic countries  1 December 1988
8859-6  Arabic   Arab countries    15 August 1987
8859-7  Greek    Greece            15 November 1987
8859-8  Hebrew   Israel            1 June 1988
8859-9  Latin-5  8859-1 minus      15 May 1989
                 Iceland plus Turkey

Random network comments indicate that Latin-1 is widely implemented,
but this is not true of the others.  Latin-3 may be for Maltese and
Esperanto, nobody seems to know for sure.  And get this: they're now
working on Latin-6.  This would be funny if it weren't true.