Re: Bug#124386: french + euro keyboard is latin15, not latin0 (which naturally does not work).

[Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@linpro.no>]

Petter Reinholdtsen <petter.reinholdtsen@usit.uio.no> writes:

> [Sven Luther]
> > as iso8859-1 is called latin1, i suppose it just makes sense to name
> > iso8859-15 latin15 ?
> 
> Not really.  There is almost, but not quite, a direct mapping from
> ISO-8859-<n> to latin<n>.  If I recall correctly, at least
> ISO-8859-11 is called latin9 for historical reasons, so you can not
> assume a direct mapping.

Here's the mapping for fans of trivia:

ISO 8859-1   Latin1
ISO 8859-2   Latin2
ISO 8859-3   Latin3
ISO 8859-4   Latin4
ISO 8859-5   Cyrillic
ISO 8859-6   Arabic
ISO 8859-7   Greek
ISO 8859-8   Hebrew
ISO 8859-9   Latin5
ISO 8859-10  Latin6
ISO 8859-11  Thai
ISO 8859-12  reserved
ISO 8859-13  Latin7
ISO 8859-14  Latin8
ISO 8859-15  Latin9 (also nicknamed Latin0)


Kjetil T.