Asmus -> ISO/IEC what? Should be 8859-1 8859-2 So letters/symbols found in ISO/IEC 8859-1 ISO/IEC 8859-2 are identical to corresponding letters/symbols in Unicode. Moreover, the code-numbers as well as names for letters/symbols used for ISO/IEC 8859-1 ISO/IEC 8859-2 are also identical in corresponding Unicode.
Am I correct on above? The link is useful Otto, thanks! And John, my platform is WinXp from Versionsoft :) and I use Firefox. Tulasi From: Asmus Freytag <asm...@ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:07:41 -0700 Subject: Re: Latin Script To: Tulasi <tulas...@gmail.com> Cc: Kenneth Whistler <k...@sybase.com>, unicode@unicode.org On 6/17/2010 7:24 PM, Tulasi wrote: > What is equivalent ISO/IEC ISO/IEC what? There are hundreds of ISO/IEC standards, of which dozens are character encoding standards. > for "U+0278 LATIN SMALL LETTER PHI (ɸ)"? > Or do Unicode & ISO/IEC use different number & name for same letter/symbol? > ISO/IEC 10646 uses the same number and name as Unicode for this. A./ > From: Otto Stolz <otto.st...@uni-konstanz.de> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:41:49 +0200 Subject: Re: Latin Script To: Tulasi <tulas...@gmail.com> Cc: unicode@unicode.org Hello Tulasi, on 2010-06-18 04:24, you have asked: > Or do Unicode & ISO/IEC use different number & name for same letter/symbol? You might find enlightening the FAQ on “Unicode and ISO 10646” <http://www.unicode.org/faq/unicode_iso.html>. Best wishes, Otto Stolz From: John Dlugosz <jdlug...@tradestation.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:00:25 -0400 Subject: RE: Latin Script To: Tulasi <tulas...@gmail.com> Cc: "vanis...@boil.afraid.org" <vanis...@boil.afraid.org>, Edward Cherlin <echer...@gmail.com>, "unicode@unicode.org" <unicode@unicode.org>, Mark Davis ☕ <m...@macchiato.com>, Otto Stolz <otto.st...@uni-konstanz.de>, Jonathan Rosenne <j...@qsm.co.il>, "asm...@ix.netcom.com" <asm...@ix.netcom.com> > > John -> If I define a symbol (variable or constant) named ɸ and some > user types 'φ' or 'ϕ' instead, it won't match. > > Can you please post the names for the other two, i.e., 'φ' or 'ϕ' ? > > John -> That's why we have Latin-1, Latin-2, etc. I used glyph only without other information to emphasize the point. What platform are you on? If reading in a web app under Firefox, use the "Identify Characters" extension. If using Windows, SC Unipad is a good program you can use to paste into and see the makeup in detail. --John From: Kenneth Whistler <k...@sybase.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:31:11 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Latin Script To: tulas...@gmail.com Cc: unicode@unicode.org > John -> If I define a symbol (variable or constant) named ɸ and some > user types 'φ' or 'ϕ' instead, it won't match. > > Can you please post the names for the other two, i.e., 'φ' or 'ϕ' ? - Hide quoted text - John was referring to: U+0278 LATIN SMALL LETTER PHI U+03C6 GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI U+03D5 GREEK PHI SYMBOL > John -> That's why we have Latin-1, Latin-2, etc. > > It looks like Latin-1 Latin-2 etc are sub sets of Latin, probably > created by programmers/coders. Have I guessed correctly A./ ? :) No. John is referring to: ISO/IEC 8859-1, Latin alphabet No. 1 ISO/IEC 8859-2, Latin alphabet No. 2 Those are different 8-bit character encodings, with different collections of Latin letters included. They were intended to cover the character encoding needs for different sets of languages, with Latin-1 aimed primarily at Western European languages and Latin-2 aimed primarily at Eastern European languages (with Latin orthographies). Both of those 8-bit character encodings include many punctuation and symbol characters other than just Latin letters, so they aren't really subsets of the Latin script at all. --Ken
