This file is part of XEmacs.  It documents the latin-euro-standards package, which ensures that wherever possible representations of all Latin characters are drawn from the same 8-bit character set.

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Recent ISO 8859 character encodings
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This package provides several recent character encodings that have been standardized by ISO, the international organization for standardization, together with the associated Mule character sets and coding systems.

It is intended to be used by the Mule-UCS (see Mule-UCS User Manual) and Latin Unity (see Latin Unity for Emacsen) packages, and was, indeed, refactored out from the latter.

Each file provides a language environment named, e.g. Latin-7, a coding system named iso-8859-13 (etc.) and a Mule character set named latin-iso8859-13 (again, etc.).

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Standards
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Latin 7
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ISO 8859-13 dates from 1998, is the seventh Roman-alphabet standard of the ISO-8859 series, and is intended for use along the Baltic rim. It notably includes support for Latvian, something that wasn't available in its predecessor in North European support, ISO-8859-6.

Latin 8
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ISO 8859-14 gives full support to Welsh and Gaelic---note that modern Irish Gaelic fits quite comfortably in ISO-8859-1, so in practical terms this is more likely to be used for Welsh and Scots Gaelic, if even then. It dates from 1998.

Latin 9
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ISO 8859 15 dates from 1999, and is a mostly-compatible revision to ISO 8859 1, replacing the disused CURRENCY SIGN with U+20AC, EURO SIGN, and making seven other changes to give better support to French and Finnish. It's most often encountered in Western European Usenet groups, in this author's experience.

Latin 10, or ISO 8859-10
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This standard is from 2001, and gives better support to Romanian and some other languages than was widely available at that point. It also has single-width directed quotation marks, which are useful in a TTY environment where using the corresponding CNS characters within XEmacs would result in a miscalculation of column numbers and corresponding second-guessing and minor derangement when directed quotation marks are used.