From: gotoken@... (GOTO Kentaro)
Date: 2000-01-04T06:49:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01043] Re: Is this a bug?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01037] Re: Is this a bug?"
    on 00/01/04, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@netlab.co.jp> writes:

>Oh, and could you tell me any idea about treating iso-8859-1
>characters in single byte mode (with -Kn)?

You can look all iso-8859-1 characters at 
http://users.hit.net/~bobbau/platforms/specialchars/

0xc0..0xff are used as non ascii alphabet except 0xd7 (division sign)
and 0xf7 (times sign). 

Maybe, we should consider existence of other character sets in ISO8859
family at this occasion.  All of them are 1byte coding sistems and
extend ascii code to the range 0x10..0xff only.

Here I summarized 
http://www.terena.nl/projects/multiling/ml-docs/iso-8859.html

 ISO#     **    Alias    Languages
 8859-1  [4/1]  Latin1   Western Europe and Americas
 8859-2  [4/2]  Latin2   Latin-written Slavic and Central European languages
 8859-3  [4/3]  Latin3   Esperanto, Galician, Maltese, and Turkish
 8859-4  [4/4]  Latin4   Scandinavia/Baltic
 8859-5  [4/12] Cyrillic 
 8859-6  [4/7]  Arabic   
 8859-7  [4/6]  Greek    
 8859-8  [4/8]  Hebrew   Non-accented Hebrew
 8859-9  [4/13] Latin5   Same as 8859-1 except for Turkish instead of Icelandic
 8859-10 [5/6]  Latin6   Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages

** [4/1] (== [0x41]) stands for a termination character in iso-2022. 

All images of each extended part of them are available too:
http://www.terena.nl/projects/multiling/ml-docs/iso-8859.html

If you are going to support these character sets, I propose a command
line option -C instead of -K, and -C8 (8 for 8bit) use to ISO 8859. 

-- gotoken