Re: Attention: European C/C++/C#/Java Programmers-Call for Input

Op Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:54:46 +0100 schreef Stefan Reuther
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Even though it might be possible to fit most Western and Central
European languages plus the standard ASCII repertoire into a common
8-bit character set, you'll probably have to ignore Cyrillic and Greek,
and still tweak a bit. Latin-1 and Latin-2 taken together have about 280
characters, not counting control charactes.

One attempt of such a character set is the EBU character set used in
RDS/RDBS, e.g. ftp://ftp.rds.org.uk/pub/acrobat/rbds1998.pdf page 92; I
haven't checked how complete it is. However, it was probably designed
with the intend to implement it on 8-bit micros :-)

And low-quality graphics, too. E.g. greek small and capital theta were
merged. Also they have omitted Greek and Cyrillic A(lfa) and B(eta)
because the appearance is the same as latin A and B. So strictly speaking
it is not a character set but a glyph encoding.

"The three code-tables each contain almost all the characters in
the international reference version of ISO Publication 646."

ISO 646 is the predecessor to Unicode; in that time they thought that 16
bits would be enough for all conceivable characters.




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