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Map Development Area (MDA)
Location:
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misc
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encoding
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iso-8859
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Types:
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Comment:
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8 bit, single byte-encoded graphic character sets -- fits to today's computer architectures and file systems?
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part
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ISO 8859-10 -- Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6)
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part
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ISO 8859-15 -- West European languages (Latin-9), includes Euro symbol, some special french characters
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part
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ISO 8859-1 -- West European languages (Latin-1), Malaysian, Swahili
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part
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ISO 8859-12 -- does not exist (Indian?)
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Comment:
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series of 256-sized character sets -- supersets ASCII (can be embedded into 8859-*)
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part
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ISO 8859-13 -- Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7), Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian
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part
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ISO 8859-7 -- Latin/Greek, modern Greek
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part
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ISO 8859-14 -- Celtic (Latin-8), Gaelic, Welsh
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Comment:
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first 160 codes are always the same -- C0 control codes in positions 0 to 31 -- the G0 graphic set in positions 32 to 127 -- C1 control codes in postions 128 to 159
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part
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ISO 8859-4 -- Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4), Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
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part
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ISO 8859-11 -- Thai
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part
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ISO 8859-8 -- Latin/Hebrew
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part
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ISO 8859-2 -- East European languages (Latin-2), Albanian, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish
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part
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ISO 8859-5 -- Latin/Cyrillic, Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian
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part
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ISO 8859-6 -- Latin/Arabic, Farsi, Persian, without accents
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part
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ISO 8859-16 -- Romanian?
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part
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ISO 8859-9 -- Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5)
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part
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ISO 8859-3 -- southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3), French, Italian, Turkish, Afrikaans
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problem
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I can use one character set to write text, but how to interchange? -- all use one byte but it means different things
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