Christopher J. Fynn wrote:
> Given the number of composite
> Latin letters with diacritics that are already encoded as characters in the
> Latin 1 Supplement,
Roundtrip compatibility with Latin-1.
> Latin Extended A,
Roundtrip compatibility with Latin-2, -3, and -4 (and de facto -5,
which includes only characters in -1 and -4).
> Latin Extended B,
Roundtrip compatibility with Latin-6, ISO 6438, GB 2312, and
JIS X 0212, plus some uppercase forms of IPA characters used
in national alphabets, and a few characters for Cyrillic vs.
Latin roundtripping in Serbian/Croatian.
> and Latin Extended Additional
Wished on us in the merger with DIS 10646, plus roundtrip
compatibility with VISCII and the corresponding Vietnamese
standard, whose number I don't have handy.
-- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! / Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge / Politzer
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