Re: [Indic-computing-standards] ISO-8859-12

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@fr...>]

On Mon, 5 May 2003 11:49:39 +0100 (BST)
Alok Kumar <al...@ya...> wrote:

> Hi,
> Does anybody know the progress on ISO-8859-12 ?
> The only information I could get was at
> http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html#Future and I'm not sure
> how recent it is.

No progress on this, ISO is probably waiting for us to give it
something.
Anyways having a registered charset for Indic would be good for
applications.
One issue is ISO-8859 standards are kind of bilingual - with 0 - 127
forming ascii plane & above for another language.
ISCII could be accomodated as ISO-8859-12 , but issue comes with ATR 
language codes, meaining apart from knowing that current charset is
iso-8859-12, the application has to know what language to use for
current text, it will have to keep a constant look for any ATR codes
coming in.
 Having a registered iso-8859-12 would mean , those against unicode (&
utf-8) can use 8 bit encoding scheme for content, & we can have iconv
routines to convert from 8 bit to Unicode & vice versa.
 Font based encodings are bad but ISCII & Unicode are good.
 
Regards,
Karunakar

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