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Re: [Groff] gkurz, a short introduction for german users


From: Tadziu Hoffmann
Subject: Re: [Groff] gkurz, a short introduction for german users
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:41:24 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

>   - There is no such encoding 'Latin-1'. It is called 'Latin1'
>   or 'ISO-8859-1';
>     see the IANA registry of character sets:
>     http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets

Hmmm, not to get into any religious differences between
"encodings" and "character sets", but I believe the document
you cite is either incomplete or inconsistent.  For example,
"ISO_8859-1:1987" has an alias "latin1" (lowercase "L"!),
whereas "ISO-8859-15" has an alias "Latin-9" (with hyphen).
Anyhow, the "Latin alphabet No. 1" defined by "ISO/IEC 8859-1"
is often called "Latin-1" or "Latin 1" for short (but the term
is probably inofficial), and even unicode calls "ISO/IEC 8859-1"
"Latin-1".






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