From: "Nerijus Baliunas" <nerijus@users.sourceforge.net>
To: "Rhys Jones" <linux-kernel@postwales.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Need for more ISO8859 codepages?
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:08:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <MPBBJGBJAHHNDMMBBLMIKEPNFKAB.nerijus@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4755.137.44.4.15.981028098.squirrel@www.sucs.swan.ac.uk>
> About 18 months ago I patched fs/nls/ to include support for the
> Celtic character set, ISO8859-14. I notice that there are still gaps
> in nls, specifically in ISO8859 codepages 10 to 13.
>
> The missing codepages are for Nordic/Icelandic (ISO8859-10), Thai
> (ISO8859-11), and Baltic Rim (ISO8859-13) languages. I'm still trying
> to determine the status of ISO8859-12 at the moment.
>
> Two questions, really. The general one is whether anyone would find
> these codepages useful. If they would, I'm willing to provide the
> patches in due course. More specifically, can anyone tell me why
> ISO8859-10 (Icelandic etc.) is mentioned in Documentation/Configure.help
> whilst nls_iso8859-10.c is missing from the fs/nls directory?
Hello,
ISO8859-13 is used in Latvia and Lithuania, so it would be useful.
I don't think ISO8859-12 is really used, it is reserved for
Devanagari (Indian), but I think they will use unicode eventually...
So it would be nice to add support for ISO8859-10 and ISO8859-13
at least.
Regards,
Nerijus
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-03 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-01 11:48 Rhys Jones
2001-02-01 17:14 ` Pierre Rousselet
2001-02-01 17:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-03 21:08 ` Nerijus Baliunas [this message]
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