Re: ISO 8859-11 Latin/Thai is out

[Theppitak Karoonboonyanan <thep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 04:51:53PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> Pablo Saratxaga wrote on 2002-01-01 09:10 UTC:
> > On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 07:44:29PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> > > BTW: ISO 8859-11 has now been published.
> > 
> > Ah? For Thai encoding?
> > I had read that iso-8859-11 was intended for the Thai encoding, but it was
> > refused because tis-620 has composing chars, which is an exclusion clause
> > for the iso-8859-* family.
> 
> Replace "refused" by "delayed".

Yes. It has been reactivated. :-)
Some clause has been added for those parts that contain combining characters.

> Only the usual one
> 
>   http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=28263&ICS1=35&ICS2=40&ICS3=
> 
> where you can buy it for 56 CHF (no, they don't take euros there, yet).
> 
> ISO 8859-11 (Information technology -- 8-bit single-byte coded graphic
> character sets -- Part 11: Latin/Thai alphabet) was apparently published
> 2001-12-13. I don't have a copy of either ISO 8859-11 or TIS 602, so I can't
> compare the two myself.

I haven't seen the published version yet. But in FDIS, the tables are
the same, except for NBSP (0xA0), which is quite trivial.

-Thep.
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