2. Standards

2.1 Latin 7

ISO 8859-13 dates from 1998, is the seventh Roman-alphabet standard of the ISO-8859 series, and is intended for use along the Baltic rim. It notably includes support for Latvian, something that wasn't available in its predecessor in North European support, ISO-8859-6.

2.2 Latin 8

ISO 8859-14 gives full support to Welsh and Gaelic--note that modern Irish Gaelic fits quite comfortably in ISO-8859-1, so in practical terms this is more likely to be used for Welsh and Scots Gaelic, if even then. It dates from 1998.

2.3 Latin 9

ISO 8859 15 dates from 1999, and is a mostly-compatible revision to ISO 8859 1, replacing the disused CURRENCY SIGN with U+20AC, EURO SIGN, and making seven other changes to give better support to French and Finnish. It's most often encountered in Western European Usenet groups, in this author's experience.

2.4 Latin 10, or ISO 8859-10

This standard is from 2001, and gives better support to Romanian and some other languages than was widely available at that point. It also has single-width directed quotation marks, which are useful in a TTY environment where using the corresponding CNS characters within XEmacs would result in a miscalculation of column numbers and corresponding second-guessing and minor derangement when directed quotation marks are used.

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