Re: Unicode mapping table need help

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On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 02:43:14 -0700 (PDT), Markus Kuhn wrote:
> > ISO-8859-10
> > ISO-8859-13
>
> Follow below. Also ISO 8859 parts 11, 14 and 15.

Just out of curiosity, what is part 12?

> I believe that the only ISO 8859 parts that were ever widely used are
> 1,2,5,7,8. Support for all the rest may safely be dumped and offering
> UTF-8 instead means to really satisfying user needs.

Support for *generating* data in the the extra parts is clearly not a
good idea, but there could be a genuine need to *receive* data
generated by misguided program(mer)s (and convert it to Unicode)...

John.

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