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* latin-euro-standards::                Recent ISO 8859 encodings in XEmacs.
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Latin characters are drawn from the same 8-bit character set.

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Recent ISO 8859 character encodings
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   This package provides several recent character encodings that have
been standardized by ISO, the international organization for
standardization, together with the associated Mule character sets and
coding systems.

   It is intended to be used by the Mule-UCS (*note Top:
(mule-ucs)Top.) and Latin Unity (*note Top: (latin-unity)Top.)
packages, and was, indeed, refactored out from the latter.

   Each file provides a language environment named, e.g. `Latin-7', a
coding system named `iso-8859-13' (etc.) and a Mule character set named
`latin-iso8859-13' (again, etc.).

* Menu:

* Copying::             latin-euro-standards copying conditions.
* Standards::           Details of the relevant ISO character encodings.


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2 Standards
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2.1 Latin 7
===========

ISO 8859-13 dates from 1998, is the seventh Roman-alphabet standard of
the ISO-8859 series, and is intended for use along the Baltic rim. It
notably includes support for Latvian, something that wasn't available in
its predecessor in North European support, ISO-8859-6.

2.2 Latin 8
===========

ISO 8859-14 gives full support to Welsh and Gaelic--note that modern
Irish Gaelic fits quite comfortably in ISO-8859-1, so in practical terms
this is more likely to be used for Welsh and Scots Gaelic, if even
then. It dates from 1998.

2.3 Latin 9
===========

ISO 8859 15 dates from 1999, and is a mostly-compatible revision to ISO
8859 1, replacing the disused CURRENCY SIGN with U+20AC, EURO SIGN, and
making seven other changes to give better support to French and
Finnish. It's most often encountered in Western European Usenet groups,
in this author's experience.

2.4 Latin 10, or ISO 8859-10
============================

This standard is from 2001, and gives better support to Romanian and
some other languages than was widely available at that point. It also
has single-width directed quotation marks, which are useful in a TTY
environment where using the corresponding CNS characters within XEmacs
would result in a miscalculation of column numbers and corresponding
second-guessing and minor derangement when directed quotation marks are
used.



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