Re: Umlaut FAQ on www.NetBSD.org out of date

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden%schemamania.org@localhost>]

Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Klaus Heinz wrote:
> >  LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO8859-1
> >  LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO8859-15
> 
> Theory is that the latter has the Euro symbol, the former doesn't.

That's the most important difference, but not the only one.  Cf.:

http://unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-1.TXT
http://unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-15.TXT

Here's a diff of the data parts:

$ diff -uw 8859-1.TXT 8859-15.TXT | grep -E '^[+-@][^#]' 
--- 8859-1.TXT  2008-02-29 00:00:00.000000000 -0500
+++ 8859-15.TXT 2004-03-03 15:06:17.000000000 -0500
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
@@ -25,18 +26,16 @@
@@ -209,11 +208,11 @@
-0xA4   0x00A4  #       CURRENCY SIGN
+0xA4   0x20AC  #       EURO SIGN
-0xA6   0x00A6  #       BROKEN BAR
+0xA6   0x0160  #       LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
-0xA8   0x00A8  #       DIAERESIS
+0xA8   0x0161  #       LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
@@ -225,17 +224,17 @@
-0xB4   0x00B4  #       ACUTE ACCENT
+0xB4   0x017D  #       LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON
-0xB8   0x00B8  #       CEDILLA
+0xB8   0x017E  #       LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON
-0xBC   0x00BC  #       VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER
-0xBD   0x00BD  #       VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
-0xBE   0x00BE  #       VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS
+0xBC   0x0152  #       LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE
+0xBD   0x0153  #       LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
+0xBE   0x0178  #       LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS

--jkl