> After having defined a 128 character table (0 -127 on 8 bits, well > one zero + 7bits) covering only the English characters and some > signs, called the ASCII table; has been defined many extended tables > using the 128 - 255 range to store some "regional" character. There > are around 10 extended tables to fit with either the french, the > danish, the Greek specificities (but not all at the same time) : > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:ISO_8859
Actually, there are much more. If I'm not mistaken, the ISO 2022 registry has designed IDs to over 100 different 8bit character sets! > Japaneses and Chineses had some strange way to store their 36 000 > ideograms and there it started to be a mess. This isn't true in general. For handling those languages separately, 16bit character sets work just fine. Emacs demonstrates that, within the ISO 2022 framework, multilingual work can be done quite efficiently. BTW, the value `36000' is not correct: The CNS 11643 character set defines around 55000 Chinese characters, and the defunct CCCII character set covered around 70000 characters (I have the books at home -- it's almost a half meter on my bookshelf). Werner _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user