[Python-ideas] Py3 unicode impositions

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Sun Feb 12 17:30:59 CET 2012


On 12 February 2012 13:33, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
> Paul Moore, 12.02.2012 13:54:
>> Latin-1, Latin-14 (Euro zone)
>
> OT-remark: I assume you meant ISO8859-15 (aka. Latin-9) here. However,
> that's not for the "Euro zone", it's just Latin-1 with the Euro character
> wangled in and a couple of other changes. It still lacks characters that
> are commonly used by languages within the Euro zone, e.g. the Slovenian
> language (a Slavic descendant), but also Gaelic or Welsh.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-15#Coverage
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1#Languages_commonly_supported_but_with_incomplete_coverage

Yes, sorry. I misremembered and was sloppy in my wording. My
apologies, and thanks for the correction.
Paul



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