Re: MES as an ISO standard?

From: Jonathan Rosenne (rosenne@netvision.net.il)
Date: Mon Jun 30 1997 - 23:59:31 EDT


At 23:23 30/06/97 -0400, Markus Kuhn wrote:
>On the Web page
>
> http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/mes.html
>
>there is a description the Minimum European Subset of ISO/IEC 10646-1
>(MES) defined in ENV 1973:1995.
>
>Are there any plans to make MES or something close to it a new
>ISO standard?
>
>I think, it would be an excellent idea to draft a new standard
>
> ISO 15646:1998 -- Multi-byte coded character set for
> European languages
>
>that specifies MES or a very similar Unicode subset with around
>1000 characters.

10646 already has the concept of subsets, all you want is an editorial to
Annex A to add another one.

Jonathan



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