- From: Martin J Duerst <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:18:19 +0100 (MET)
- To: lee@sq.com
- Cc: www-international@w3.org, JHTaylor@videodiscovery.com
lee@sq.com wrote: >> Is there an authoritative mapping from ISO 8879 entities (ISOamsa, >> ISOgrk1, ISOlat1, ISOlat2, etc.) to ISO 10646? If so, where might I find >> such a beast? > >I don't believe such a beast is possible -- the entities listed in the >annex to ISO 8879 do not all have corresponding ISO 10646 glyphs. > >Some of them (e.g. Alternative Greek Symbols) could be represented >with a combination of element markup and reuse of other Greek Symbols. > >Some of the others, such as Added Math Symbols: Relations, are simply >not available in 10646. > >But if you are not doing mathematics or Ancient (pre-1975 polytonik) Greek, >most of them are there. This has been added I think in version 1.1. It's in the 1Fxx block. Anyway, even correspondences to combining sequences, and only for those entities where correspondences exist, would be a great thing. Regards, Martin.
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