From JCHBN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Mon Jul 31 09:40:00 1995 Received: from cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA18471 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Mon, 31 Jul 1995 19:55:53 +0200 Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R1) with BSMTP id 2308; Mon, 31 Jul 95 13:56:05 EDT Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 13:40 EDT From: (John F. Chandler) JCHBN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU To: i18n@dkuug.dk Subject: Re: Latest Update to the ISO 2375 Registry In-Reply-To: keld@dkuug.dk message <199507301828.AA10079@dkuug.dk> of Sun, 30 Jul 1995 14:28:24 -0400 Message-Id: X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Just a quick note to those who are interested in such things. Last week I received an update to the ISO registry of coded character sets. It was mostly a "correction" to the number of distinct characters in ir-165 from 8443 to 8446. Unfortunately, neither number is true. By actual count, I find there are 8444 (including the SPACE character). The larger number resulted from adding together the subtotals of characters in the various categories, one of which has been corrected, but one other is still wrong. When future, substantive changes are made to the International Registry, I propose to post here a summary of the current list of character sets at such time. I have been in the habit of posting this summary to a now-defunct LISTSERV list at John Hopkins. If there are enough people here who haven't seen this summary (and want to), I can post the current version here now. John Chandler