Hi
"Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The problem is, that there are more special characters than 128.
>> (eg hungarian 'hoszu � and �' which are not part of latin-1)
>> But there is Unicode which has plenty of space for many, many
>> characters, BUT it is not compatible to ascii ... (sure :)) it can't
>> be compatible)
SH> Yes, I realize that there are more special characters than just 128;
SH> however, 128 different characters is enough for most European
SH> languages.
But why should european characters be included and eg Asians not in a
standardized characterset ?? :)
There IS a european characterset. (Latin-1)
But I can only speak for hungarian and german.
All german spec. characters, and nearly all except the hoszu ���� are
implemented in Latin-1.
ALL hungarian characters are implemented in Latin-2.
SH> I have been told that some Oriental languages have even
SH> several thousand special characters.
It zhink that many have 2 kind of ABCs, and one consists of only some
characters, and not some thousand.
SH> I have often wondered about the alternative code systems which permit
SH> people having non-ascii characters in their language to communicate
SH> over the internet.
You simply write into the header what characterset you are using, and
that's it.
The other party can accomodate that.
(Michael has already written that)
Eg if letter is written in latin-2, than the mail program will display it
using a latin-2 font, and all characters are showing up correctly.
SH> Would someone please refer me to a web page that would help explain
SH> it?
try http://www.unicode.org
There are also tables for non unicode charactersets.
(eg cp437 used on standard dos machines, CP850 which roughly corresponds to
Latin-1 [with some exceptions], and CP855 which roughly corresponds to
latin-2 and has all hungarian characters)
SH> Sam Heywood
CU, Ricsi
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