Thanks Ken! What is equivalent ISO/IEC for "U+0278 LATIN SMALL LETTER PHI (ɸ)"? Or do Unicode & ISO/IEC use different number & name for same letter/symbol?
Tulasi From: Kenneth Whistler <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:31:11 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Latin Script To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] > John -> If I define a symbol (variable or constant) named ɸ and some > user types 'φ' or 'ϕ' instead, it won't match. > > Can you please post the names for the other two, i.e., 'φ' or 'ϕ' ? John was referring to: U+0278 LATIN SMALL LETTER PHI U+03C6 GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI U+03D5 GREEK PHI SYMBOL > John -> That's why we have Latin-1, Latin-2, etc. > > It looks like Latin-1 Latin-2 etc are sub sets of Latin, probably > created by programmers/coders. Have I guessed correctly A./ ? :) No. John is referring to: ISO/IEC 8859-1, Latin alphabet No. 1 ISO/IEC 8859-2, Latin alphabet No. 2 Those are different 8-bit character encodings, with different collections of Latin letters included. They were intended to cover the character encoding needs for different sets of languages, with Latin-1 aimed primarily at Western European languages and Latin-2 aimed primarily at Eastern European languages (with Latin orthographies). Both of those 8-bit character encodings include many punctuation and symbol characters other than just Latin letters, so they aren't really subsets of the Latin script at all. --Ken
