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But there are hundreds of thousands of companies around the world, and each company may have several different logos. There's not enough space for all of them unless you resign yourself to a...
On Sat, 10 Dec 05 13:59:57 GMT
If only. Unfortunately it's far messier
iso8868 plus 1-1 has glyphs for western european languages iso8859-2 has glyphs for eastern european languages iso8859-3 has glyphs for south european languages iso8859-4 has glyphs for north european languages iso8859-5 has Cyrillic glyphs iso8859-6 has Arabic glyphs iso8859-7 has Greek glyphs iso8859-8 has Hebrew glyphs iso8859-9 has Turkish glyphs iso8859-10 has Nordic glyphs iso8859-11 has Thai glyphs iso8859-12 is not yet defined iso8859-13 has glyphs for Baltic languages iso8859-14 has glyphs for Celtic languages iso8859-15 is almost but not quite the same as iso8859-1 - it has the Euro
Note that they all have ASCII in the first 128 positions.
It's all very well if you only want to write in one language and never want to quote the occasional word in a different script, provided of course that you always identify which of these you are using.
Unicode cleans up this mess by providing a single coding which unfortunately takes more than 8 bits per character to represent (24 in fact). Fortunately there is a variable length representation of Unicode called UTF-8 which matches ASCII when the top bit is clear.
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