From: Richard Wordingham (richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com)
Date: Sun Jul 16 2006 - 10:44:17 CDT
Philippe Verdy wrote on Sunday, July 16, 2006 at 2:28 PM:
> Thailand had TIS-620 long before Unicode and ISO, and could develop and
> impose it without asking for international support at ISO.
> Both examples could not fit the ISO8859 encoding model (made mostly for
> simple alphabets or abjads) although they were compatible with ISO 646
> (not ISO 646/US, alias US-ASCII), but ISO could have adopted them as
> separate standards if these countries had requested it, and accepted to
> provide the fair licencing policy and implementation support for its use
> worldwide.
Actually, the ISO-8859 restrictions were relaxed, and ISO/IEC 8859-11:2001,
a superset of TIS-620, has finally been approved. (See
http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=28263&ICS1=35&ICS2=40&ICS3
.
Richard.
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