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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:	DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:	Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:	SMURF::DENHAM

Created:	Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	10068
Total number of notes:	35879

9097.0. "Czech locale support in Digital Unix question" by HYDRA::DONSBACH (Jeff Donsbach, Software Partner Engineering, DTN 297-6862) Mon Mar 10 1997 15:50

    
    I got the following question from my ISV regarding I18N Support
    for the Czech locale. I'm not sure if this is where I18N issues
    are discussed or not (if not, point me at the right place).
    Anyway ....
    
    ----------
    
    Just how does DEC do Czech in a single-byte character set? I remember
    (from fielding a complaint to <another ISV> about a mis-spelled professor)
    that there is no single-byte representation of a C with a hacek
    (miniature V, or upside-down circumflex) on it, as is needed in (for
    instance) Janacek.
    
    --------
    
    Thanks,
    -Jeff D.

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9097.1 Sure there is. QUARRY::reeves Jon Reeves, UNIX compiler group Mon Mar 10 1997 18:32 9

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9097.1	Sure there is.	QUARRY::reeves	Jon Reeves, UNIX compiler group	`Mon Mar 10 1997 18:32`	9
	There's more than one 8-bit character set; that's why the most common one is called Latin-1. That one is geared to Western European languages. As you might guess, there's a whole family of Latin-n (technically, ISO8859-n, though the n isn't always the same) standards; the one that's relevant to Czech is Latin-2, which includes haceks along with Polish slashes and that funky reverse cedilla (Hungarian?) whose name I forget. For a good overview, see http://wwwwbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~czyborra/charsets/

There's more than one 8-bit character set; that's why the most common one
is called Latin-1.  That one is geared to Western European languages.

As you might guess, there's a whole family of Latin-n (technically, ISO8859-n,
though the n isn't always the same) standards; the one that's relevant to Czech
is Latin-2, which includes haceks along with Polish slashes and that funky
reverse cedilla (Hungarian?) whose name I forget.  For a good overview, see

http://wwwwbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~czyborra/charsets/