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By author: Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> : 8859-1 (Latin-1)
> : Latin-1 covers most Western European languages such as Albanian, Catalan,
> : Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, French, German, Galician,
> ^^^^^^^
> It does not. ISO-8859-2 or ISO-8859-15 or ISO-8859-16 covers Finnish
>
Actually ISO-8859-1 is considered "fine" for Finnish in much the same
way it is considered "fine" for French, or US-ASCII is considered
"fine" for English, so if you list French for ISO-8859-1 you probably
want to list Finnish as well.
My understanding is that it's "OK but not ideal" to write "s" or "z"
instead of "�" and "�" in Finnish just as it's "OK but not ideal" to
write "oeuf" instead of "�uf" in French or "naive" instead of "na�ve"
in English. Finnish keyboards, which are the same as Swedish ones,
don't even have keys for � and �.
-hpa
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