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6.2.3 Some Encodings
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Most of the following information is a courtesy of Alis Technologies
inc.  (http://www.alis.com/) and of Roman Czyborra
<zcyborra@cs.tu-berlin.de>'s page about The ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup
(http://czyborra.com/charsets/).  Note: What is an Encoding, is an
instructive presentation of the encodings.

   The known encodings are:
 -- Encoding: ASCII ('ascii.edf')
     US-ASCII.

 -- Encoding: EUC-JP ('euc-jp.edf')
     The EUC-JP encoding is a 8-bit character set widely used in Japan.

 -- Encoding: HPRoman ('hp.edf')
     The 8 bits Roman encoding for HP.

 -- Encoding: IBM-CP437 ('ibm-cp437.edf')
     This encoding is meant to be used for PC files with drawing lines.

 -- Encoding: IBM-CP850 ('ibm-cp850.edf')
     Several characters may be missing, especially Greek letters and
     some mathematical symbols.

 -- Encoding: ISO-8859-1 ('iso1.edf')
     The ISO-8859-1 character set, often simply referred to as Latin 1,
     covers most West European languages, such as French, Spanish,
     Catalan, Basque, Portuguese, Italian, Albanian, Rhaeto-Romanic,
     Dutch, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Faroese,
     Icelandic, Irish, Scottish, and English, incidentally also
     Afrikaans and Swahili, thus in effect also the entire American
     continent, Australia and the southern two-thirds of Africa.  The
     lack of the ligatures Dutch IJ, French OE and ,,German" quotation
     marks is considered tolerable.

     The lack of the new C=-resembling Euro currency symbol U+20AC has
     opened the discussion of a new Latin0.

 -- Encoding: ISO-8859-2 ('iso2.edf')
     The Latin 2 character set supports the Slavic languages of Central
     Europe which use the Latin alphabet.  The ISO-8859-2 set is used
     for the following languages: Czech, Croat, German, Hungarian,
     Polish, Romanian, Slovak and Slovenian.

     Support is provided thanks to Ogonkify.

 -- Encoding: ISO-8859-3 ('iso3.edf')
     This character set is used for Esperanto, Galician, Maltese and
     Turkish.

     Support is provided thanks to Ogonkify.

 -- Encoding: ISO-8859-4 ('iso4.edf')
     Some letters were added to the ISO-8859-4 to support languages such
     as Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian.  It is an incomplete precursor
     of the Latin 6 set.

     Support is provided thanks to Ogonkify.

 -- Encoding: ISO-8859-5 ('iso5.edf')
     The ISO-8859-5 set is used for various forms of the Cyrillic
     alphabet.  It supports Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Macedonian, Serbian
     and Ukrainian.

     The Cyrillic alphabet was created by St.  Cyril in the 9th century
     from the upper case letters of the Greek alphabet.  The more
     ancient Glagolithic (from the ancient Slav glagol, which means
     "word"), was created for certain dialects from the lower case Greek
     letters.  These characters are still used by Dalmatian Catholics in
     their liturgical books.  The kings of France were sworn in at Reims
     using a Gospel in Glagolithic characters attributed to St.  Jerome.

     Note that Russians seem to prefer the KOI8-R character set to the
     ISO set for computer purposes.  KOI8-R is composed using the lower
     half (the first 128 characters) of the corresponding American ASCII
     character set.

 -- Encoding: ISO-8859-7 ('iso7.edf')
     ISO-8859-7 was formerly known as ELOT-928 or ECMA-118:1986.  It is
     meant for modern Greek.

 -- Encoding: ISO-8859-9 ('iso9.edf')
     The ISO 8859-9 set, or Latin 5, replaces the rarely used Icelandic
     letters from Latin 1 with Turkish letters.

     Support is provided thanks to Ogonkify.

 -- Encoding: ISO-8859-10 ('iso10.edf')
     Latin 6 (or ISO-8859-10) adds the last letters from Greenlandic and
     Lapp which were missing in Latin 4, and thereby covers all
     Scandinavia.

     Support is provided thanks to Ogonkify.

 -- Encoding: ISO-8859-13 ('iso13.edf')
     Latin7 (ISO-8859-13) is going to cover the Baltic Rim and
     re-establish the Latvian (lv) support lost in Latin6 and may
     introduce the local quotation marks.

     Support is provided thanks to Ogonkify.

 -- Encoding: ISO-8859-15 ('iso15.edf')
     The new Latin9 nicknamed Latin0 aims to update Latin1 by replacing
     some less needed symbols (some fractions and accents) with
     forgotten French and Finnish letters and placing the U+20AC Euro
     sign in the cell of the former international currency sign.

     Support of the Euro symbol is provided thanks to Ogonkify.

 -- Encoding: KOI8 ('koi8.edf')
     KOI-8 (+ª³«³) is a subset of ISO-IR-111 that can be used in Serbia,
     Belarus etc.

 -- Encoding: MS-CP1250 ('ms-cp1250.edf')
     Microsoft's CP-1250 encoding (aka CeP).

 -- Encoding: MS-CP1251 ('ms-cp1251.edf')
     Microsoft CP1251 is encoding used in Microsoft Windows for Cyrillic
     languages

 -- Encoding: Macintosh ('mac.edf')
     For the Macintosh encoding.  The support is not sufficient, and a
     lot of characters may be missing at the end of the job (especially
     Greek letters).