A note on ISO Latin 2 character set

Unfortunately, the standards of character set encoding are messed up even where they needn’t be, like those distinguishing Western from Eastern and Central European sets - not to mention "Latin 1", "Latin 2", "Windows 1250" and various "ISO" standards. Quite confusing.

We have set these pages in the ISO Latin 2 standard which contains all the essential characters (letters, that is) of Western European languages except - God knows why - vowels with grave accents (`) common in French (and there is some French ahead). On these pages, they will appear to you as two consecutive characters (e. g., "e`").

Much more frequent, however (and this is the reason we have set the Latin 2 standard), are the letters č, ž and š, used in some Slavic (but not only Slavic) languages with Latin (as opposed to Cyrillic or any other) alphabet; and since Slovene is one of them and there are many names ahead that contain these characters, you shouldn’t miss them.

By the way, č is pronounced as "ch" in richness, š as "sh" in rushing, and ž as "j" in the French name Jacques. There is occasionally also letter ć, which is a softer variant of č.

Our apologies for this trouble, but then again - nobody said computers (or their makers) were rational... :)

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