Re: New charsets (7) manpage

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Followup to:  <20010804173655.A6547@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Radovan Garabik <garabik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> 
>  : 8859-1 (Latin-1)
>  : Latin-1 covers most Western European languages such as Albanian, Catalan,
>  : Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, French, German, Galician,
>                                     ^^^^^^^
> It does not. ISO-8859-2 or ISO-8859-15 or ISO-8859-16 covers Finnish
> 

Actually ISO-8859-1 is considered "fine" for Finnish in much the same
way it is considered "fine" for French, or US-ASCII is considered
"fine" for English, so if you list French for ISO-8859-1 you probably
want to list Finnish as well.

My understanding is that it's "OK but not ideal" to write "s" or "z"
instead of "š" and "ž" in Finnish just as it's "OK but not ideal" to
write "oeuf" instead of "œuf" in French or "naive" instead of "naïve"
in English.  Finnish keyboards, which are the same as Swedish ones,
don't even have keys for Š and Ž.

	-hpa
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