Postscript iso latin 1

When viewed as a modification of ISO Latin 1, ISO Latin 9 replaces some rarely needed characters by euro sign - a politically important symbol for the currency of the European Monetary Union EMU - and the letters oe ligature and capital Y with diaeresis used in French and letters s with caron and z with caron used in Finnish and other languages.

The following table presents the differences in detail. Therefore it has often been referred to as "Latin 0". Within the European Union EU , the euro currency has great political and practical importance. The euro sign is both a character that will be used widely and a symbol of the monetary union. Therefore, within EU, and in countries applying for EU membership, it is a crucial requirement that euro sign is available.

For technical information on this, see section Euro symbol in IT impact of the Euro archived site. ISO Latin 9 contains both euro sign and some important national letters, and the ISO Latin 1 characters replaced by them are very rarely used, as the document The ISO Latin 1 character repertoire - a description with usage notes explains in some detail.

Since eight-bit character encodings are still very important, it seems more than likely that ISO Latin 1 will be generally replaced by ISO Latin 9, within Europe at least. These characters are s with caron , oe ligature , and capital Y with diaeresis. Microsoft Corporat Doug Lowe. I Series Stephen Haag. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Introd Gary B. Introduction to programming Internet Quick Source.

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Avid Technology In Avid Xpress DV 3. There are disagreements between the various documents as to the correct names for several of the entities: "HTML 3. My document is based on the version. However, according to a Usenet posting by Markus Kuhn , the main change is that the names have been made identical to those in UCS i.

It is largely compatible with parts 1 through 4 of ISO As explained in legend for the the character list , there are some differences between the ISO names and Unicode names for some characters, and even variation between Unicode versions.

It is probably best to use Unicode names as defined in the newest version, due to the increasing importance of Unicode. In addition to official names, there is a large number of unofficial names for characters, and they vary from one context, culture, and group of people to another. For a collection of some of the jargon, see pronunciation guide for unix. For communicative purposes, such jargon names should be avoided at least outside contexts and communities where they are generally known and uniquely understood.

And in fact, if you use them in your ordinary environment, are you sure you can smoothly switch to standard names when needed? The official definition of the ISO Latin 1 character repertoire in the ISO standard "does not define and does not restrict the meanings of graphic characters", except for the following characters: space , no-break space , soft hyphen.

It says that "the names chosen to denote graphic characters are intended to reflect their customary meaning", but as far as the ISO standard is concerned, you might use most of the characters for whatever you like. The price to pay for this "liberalism" is that you cannot assume that other people and computer programs will interpret the characters the same way as you.

On the other hand, the Unicode standard contains quite detailed notes on the use of characters. It seems reasonable to use ISO Latin 1 characters according to the semantics specified in the Unicode standard. Let us first make it clear that in various formal languages, programming languages, command languages, markup languages, etc.

But various technical meanings have been assigned to it.