Re: ISO 8859-11 Latin/Thai is out

[Pablo Saratxaga <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kaixo!

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 04:51:32PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote:

> > 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".

Well, a very long delay it was :)
 
> > I would be interested to learn about the published ISO 8859-11, do you have
> > an url ?
> 
> 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).

I'm a bit reluctant to pay just to learn that it is no more than tis-620
under another name.
Access to that kind of information shouldn't be made on fee base; it is not
for the price in itself (I can pay it), but the idea behind; do you imagine
the Mendeleev table being available only for a fee ?

> 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.

for tis-620 there is a page (in Thai) at
http://www.nectec.or.th/it-standards/std620/std620.htm
and some interesting info in English at:
http://www.inet.co.th/cyberclub/trin/thairef/#ThaiCharsetStds
 
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