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On 17:19 11/05/2005, John Cowan said:
>JFC (Jefsey) Morfin scripsit:
>
> > Most of the used charsets (sorry, "scripts") in use and part of the
> > Internet world are not documented by ISO 19524.
>
>Charsets and scripts are distinct concepts.  Charsets are encodings of
>characters into octets.  Scripts are collections of characters used in
>writing systems, and have no connection with encoding.  ISO 8859-1 and
>Win-1252 are charsets.  Latin, Greek, and Cherokee are scripts.

Frank documented what you can do with this mental twist. Scripts are named 
in ISO 15924 ane are collections of characters documented in ISO 10646 with 
their digital value. Charsets are collections of characters with their 
digital encoding, which can be documented in various ISO or non ISO 
documents like ISO 10646, ISO 8859-1, etc. Default Internet charset is the 
UTF-8 global script.

Anyway, non of them gives me a correct French keyboard :-)

As long as I have not one, and all the people of the world do not have a 
collections of characters to produce a keyboard respecting their language, 
I am sorry but all this will call for more than a mental twist to satisfies me.

BTW , I always wander (and nobody answered) what is going to be the use for 
your browser to know the name of the Script? Will it tell you "Hi! John, 
you entered Mongolian script", or will it call a collection of digital 
records to do someting with them? Or is it just for statistics?

jfc






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