From alb@sct.gouv.qc.ca Mon Jun 12 16:32:08 1995 Received: from socrate.riq.qc.ca by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA22021 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Mon, 12 Jun 1995 17:37:22 +0200 Received: from slip70 (slip70.riq.qc.ca) by socrate.riq.qc.ca (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA02411; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 11:32:09 +0500 Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 11:32:08 +0500 Message-Id: <9506121532.AA02411@socrate.riq.qc.ca> X-Sender: alb@riq.qc.ca X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.3b4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Graham Dixon , Keld J|rn Simonsen From: alb@sct.gouv.qc.ca (Alain LaBont:e':) Subject: Re: (i18n.269) Re: Re: Welsh Character Set Cc: gwm@austin.ibm.com, i18n@dkuug.dk, fxrojas@austin.ibm.com, ca-jtc1-sc2@microstar.com, yergeau@alis.ca (Fran:c,:ois Yergeau) Content-Length: 1429 X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 At 12:16 12/06/1995 -0900, Graham Dixon wrote: >On Sat, 10 Jun 1995, Keld J|rn Simonsen wrote: > >> gwm@austin.ibm.com writes: >> >> > Can anyone tell me which of the ISO 8859 codesets contain the >> > Welsh character set? Or, which other codeset(s) contain the Welsh >> > character set? >> >> The only one is know of is ISO/IEC 10646-1 (and thus UNICODE). >> As far as I know no 8859 set has full Welch repertoire, >> it is especially the etc that is missing. Even ISO 6937 >> does not cover this, while it actually could. >> >> Keld >> >Keld Simonsen's information is not quite right. There is a specific Welsh >character set in the ISO 2375 Register: > >ISO-IR 182, "Welsh variant of Latin Alphabet No.1 (right-hand part)", Interesting info. I had a look. Why did Britain remove THORNs to put letters? Does it mean it is not required out there (the OED uses them). I'm just curious. Stand-alone acute accent could have been sacrificed (waht was done for the other ones, which is an intelligent choice), as well as the so-called "international monetary symbol" which is useless definitely since PERESTROIKA (its historical use was a Soviet requirement not to have to have a dollar sign in 7-bit ISO 646 IRV!!!) Other replacements are not bad. If we had known this, we could have suggested you to reintroduce OEs instead of MULTIPLY and DIVIDE and it would have fully supported French. Alain LaBont Qubec