On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Michael Everson wrote: >>ISO/IEC 8859-1 is as useful for northern European languages as for English. > >Not for any of the Sami languages or Finnish Romany it isn't.
Furthermore, it must be pointed out that Latin 1 lacks U+0160 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON, U+0161 LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON, U+017D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON and U+017E LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON which are part of the official Finnish orthography. This is not a major problem as variant spellings abound here, granted, but in meticulously correct (read: government) documents this is a real issue. I also understand that 8859-15/Latin 9 fixes the problem Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2
