- From: Otto Stolz <Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de>
- Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 15:42:27 +0100
- To: Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@sharif.edu>
- Cc: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>, ietf-charsets <ietf-charsets@iana.org>, unicode <unicode@unicode.org>, i18n <i18n@XFree86.Org>, li18nux <li18nux@li18nux.org>
Markus Kuhn had written: > I suspect they are the same and that [ISO 8859-11] will be > the first part of ISO 8859 that has combining characters. Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > No, the first was ISO 8859-6. Sorry to disappoint ;) Quote from ISO 8859-6 (1st ed., 1987), section 1: | This part of ISO 8859 specifies a set of 146 graphic characters | identified as the Arabic/Latin alphabet and the coded represen- | tation of each of theses characters by means of a single 8-bit | byte. Quote from ISO 8859-6 (1st ed., 1987), section 7: | The use of control functions, such as BACKSPACE or | CARRIAGE RETURN for the coded representation of com- | posite characters is prohibited by this part of ISO 8859. The issue of combining characters is not mentioned in ISO 8859-6. Do you think, it is implicit in the character names? And if so, which characters are combining, in your opinion? Best wishes, Otto Stolz
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