Dear all,
ISO has just published ISO/IEC 8859-16:2001 (Latin-10, East European
Languages, with Euro, Romanian "comma below" characters, etc.),
essentially intended as a modernized version of ISO 8859-2:
http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=33428&ICS1=35&ICS2=40&ICS3=
I've made a Unicode mapping table based on the data in the FDIS
http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso8859/fdis8859-16-en.pdf
which is now officially available on
ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-16.TXT
Please compare with and update your mapping table collections.
Please add ISO 8859-16 to your character set name registries on
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/DOCS/registry
http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets
I do not recommend to actually use ISO 8859-16 for any data exchange
over the Internet, since UTF-8 can be used for the same purposes and is
already far more widely implemented. Let's all pray that this will be
the last part of the now well-stirred ISO 8859 alphabet soup.
Markus
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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
