Talk:ISO/IEC 8859-15

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[edit] Two charts

There are two comparison charts. Is that needed? 212.242.144.172 12:10, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

I presume you mean the chart showing the changes from 8859-1 and the one showing all the characters in 8859-15. They serve different uses.
The first chart, part of the section explaining how 8859-15 differs from 8859-1, focuses only on the changes and shows what the corresponding replaced characters are in 8859-1. The full chart could not do this clearly.
The full chart enables the whole of 8859-15 to be seen at once, which showing just the changes cannot do. --82.46.154.93 07:28, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Oh, you probably meant the two almost identical tables that were merged that day. Never mind then. --82.46.154.93 07:32, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] OE in French

My understanding is that OE and oe were in draft versions of ISO 8859-1 and were removed at the prompting of the delegate representing France. His idea was that the ligature was purely typographic. Then there was a new French delegate and, together with the Canadian delegate, they took the position that oe is a letter (I think that the "proof" was to do with collating sequence). But it was too late to fix 8859-1. Since then, the French have been unsupportive of ISO 8859-1. I assume that -15 brings them onside again, but a bit late.

Welsh_alphabet digraphs are still not supported. The rumour was that the British rep didn't remember he was representing Wales. That might be untrue or unfair. I heard a similar story about Basque characters.

This is unsourced second-hand recollection. With supporting information, it might be worth adding here or in ISO/IEC_8859-1. -- 22:04, 11 November 2006) User:DHR

It's true enough that ISO 8859-1 was the result of competing balance of national interests, and that the French representatives scuttled the OE/oe ligatures at a late date (whereupon these were somewhat clumsily replaced by multiplication and division signs), but that's not really true of 8859-15 -- 8859-15 (which came 20 years later) was kind of a quick hack to introduce the Euro sign and the non-typographic characters contained in Windows-1252 in order to fill a gap in the transition between 8-bit character sets and Unicode. AnonMoos 22:16, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
Coming a little late, but I can add an independent recollection that the ANSI X3/L2 committee, on which I was an observer, included the OE ligature because they thought the French would want it. When the character set was submitted to ISO the French representative vetoed it. We thought it was because France was formally phasing the ligature out of the language, but that may be a misunderstanding of the reason. I also recollect that the British representatives pressed for multiple and divide to be included in the vacant slots, and nobody had any better ideas, resulting in the inelegant intrusions. I was at Prime Computer; we were just rolling out the PT200 terminal at the time and the original ROMs had Œ/œ. We had to redesign them hastily and luckily only a few had shipped. David Brooks (talk) 18:15, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] C0 and C1 control codes part of ISO/IEC 8859-15?

ISO-8859-15
x0 x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7 x8 x9 xA xB xC xD xE xF
0x NUL SOH STX ETX EOT ENQ ACK BEL BS HT LF VT FF CR SO SI
1x DLE DC1 DC2 DC3 DC4 NAK SYN ETB CAN EM SUB ESC FS GS RS US
2x SP  ! " # $  % & ' ( ) * + , - . /
3x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9  :  ; < = >  ?
4x @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O
5x P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _
6x ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
7x p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~ DEL
8x PAD HOP BPH NBH IND NEL SSA ESA HTS HTJ VTS PLD PLU RI SS2 SS3
9x DCS PU1 PU2 STS CCH MW SPA EPA SOS SGCI SCI CSI ST OSC PM APC
Ax NBSP ¡ ¢ £ € ¥ Š § š © ª «  ¬ SHY ® ¯
Bx ° ± ² ³ Ž µ · ž ¹ º  » Œ œ Ÿ ¿
Cx À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï
Dx Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö × Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß
Ex à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï
Fx ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ÷ ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ
KEY
NUL C0 control code
PAD C1 control code
 ! Character that is the same in ISO 8859-1 and ISO 8859-15
€ Character in ISO 8859-15 that is different from the one at the same position in ISO-8859-1


Are the C0 and C1 control codes really part of 8859-15, as the table currently suggests? As this draft says: The shaded positions in the code table correspond to bit combinations that do not represent graphic characters. Their use is outside the scope of ISO/IEC 8859; it is specified in other International Standards, for example ISO/IEC 6429.,
with the usual C0 and C1 code points all shaded.

This practise (to not include C0 and C1 in 8859-n) can also be found in the article ISO/IEC 8859-1 (C0 and C1 code points marked unused).

--Abdull 11:39, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Please read the second paragraph of the intro and note the destinction between ISO/IEC 8859-15 (an ISO/IEC standard) and ISO-8859-15 (a mime charset) Plugwash (talk) 09:00, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Adress

I think it's needed to say that this is the character set used for strange symbols on the address bar on web browsers (%20 = space). 84.120.173.177 (talk) 19:22, 6 December 2007 (UTC)