-----Original Message-----
From: Hietaniemi Jarkko (NRC/Boston)
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 12:43
To: 'ext Marco Cimarosti'
Subject: RE: This spoofing and security thread
> Perhaps you are referring to the lack of letter š for Finnish. BTW, it also
> lacks Ÿ for French. Thanks to euro, all this was fixed in ISO 8859-15:
>
> A4 € EURO SIGN
> A6 Š LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
> A8 š LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
> B4 Ž LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON
> B8 ž LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON
> BC ΠLATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE
> BD œ LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
> BE Ÿ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
Yup. Strictly speaking, though, the "caroned" s and z are not needed for native
Finnish words, but they are needed for the proper spelling of few "Finnishized"
loanwords like
šakki "chess"
šekki "cheque"
and for the proper spelling of Finnish transliteration of Cyrillic names.
(The traditional workaround for not having the letters has been to use "sh" and "zh".)
I think the caron versions also make the Sámi people happier.
