Talk:ISO/IEC 6937
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It seems a strange decision not to unify C6 (breve) with CF (caron), C7 (dot) with CA (ring) and CB (cedilla) with CE (ogonek). (Romanian comma below is unified with cedilla, and correctly so.) If you don’t do that you don’t have to restrict the possible combinations. On a pan-European keyboard one would absolutely do this unification for dead keys. Furthermore C5 (macron) should have also allowed more and there should have been a ligate (or separate) code, or you would unify Ää with Ææ and Öö with Œœ, displaying the appropriate one depending on language. They could have covered Latin Extended-A easily. 77.128.157.106 18:04, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
| Dead key | Base character | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grave | ` | AEIOUaeiou | ÀÈÌÒÙàèìòù |
| Acute | ´ | ACEILNORSUYZaceilnorsuyz | ÁĆÉÍĹŃÓŔŚÚÝŹáćéíĺńóŕśúýź |
| Circumflex | ^ | ACEGHIJOSUWYaceghijosuwy | ÂĈÊĜĤÎĴÔŜÛŴŶâĉêĝĥîĵôŝûŵŷ |
| Tilde | ˜ | AINOUainou | ÃĨÑÕŨãĩñõũ |
| Macron or Stroke | ¯ | ADEHILOTUadehilotu | ĀÐĒĦĪŁŌŦŪāðēħīłōŧū |
| Breve or Caron | ˘ ˇ | ACDEGLNRSTUZacdeglnrstuz | ĂČĎĚĞĽŇŘŠŤŬŽăčďěğľňřšťŭž |
| Dot or Ring | ˙ ˚ | ACEGILUZacegiluz | ÅĊĖĠİĿŮŻåċėġıŀůż |
| Umlaut / diæresis | ¨ | AEIOUYaeiouy | ÄËÏÖÜŸäëïöüÿ |
| Cedilla or Ogonek | ¸ ˌ ˛ | ACEIGKLNRSTUacegiklnrstu | ĄÇĘĢĮĶĻŅŖŞŢŲąçęģįķļņŗşţų |
| Double Acute | ˝ | OUou | ŐŰőű |
- The code page was never designed with keyboard layouts in mind, but for display. It was designed almost 25 years ago to solve a specific problem then and there. It's almost a given that unfortunate decisions would be included. For that matter, there are much worse code pages around. 194.151.6.70 11:00, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Copyright issues?
Has anyone noticed that much of the text of this article added by User:84.12.157.2 is cribbed straight from http://panda.bg.univ.gda.pl/~janusz/publications/iso6937.html ? (Which has a modification date of 1997, obviously earlier than the wikipedia addition.) That includes a statement about the currency symbol that don't match the character set chart for ISO/IEC 6937:1992 in the footnote I added to the article. Is that a legitimate addition or does it need to be diked out? I'm leaving it for now because I don't think a polish professor is likely to be terribly litigious, but still. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 06:13, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
