Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!bas+ From: bas+@andrew.cmu.edu (Bruce Sherwood) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: Latin-2 character set Message-ID: Date: 31 Jan 89 14:42:09 GMT References: <411ed2aa.b88e@apollo.COM> , <918@auspex.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 33 In-Reply-To: <918@auspex.UUCP> I'm only too well aware that the Latin-3 character shapes aren't going to show up in a mail message on most computers! But there are listings in the ISO documents of the names of the characters. E.g., "small letter s with cedilla." Here is the full listing of languages given in the ISO documents. Latin-1: Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish. Note that while Latin-1 is sometimes referred to as handling West European languages, it doesn't handle Catalan (see Latin-3) or Welsh (as I understand it, not handled by any ISO-8859 set), and maybe other non-national but existing languages of West Europe. Latin-2: Albanian, Czech, English, German, Hungarian, Polish, Rumanian, Serbocroatian, Slovak, Slovene. Latin-3: Afrikaans, Catalan, Dutch, English, Esperanto, German, Italian, Maltese, Spanish, Turkish. Note that Dutch, German, Italian, and Spanish are also covered by Latin-1. Latin-4: Danish, Estonian, English, Finnish, German, Greenlandic, Lappish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Swedish, Norwegian. Again, note the many overlaps with Latin-1. 5) Cyrillic. 6) Arabic. 7) Greek. 8) Hebrew. Bruce Sherwood bas@andrew.cmu.edu or bas@andrew.bitnet