37 Obtaining TEI WSDs

The TEI has produced a number of exemplary Writing System Definitions, corresponding with several major international standards. This section lists those which are currently available. In each case, the root name specified is that used for the file on the TEI file servers.

A typical public identifier for a Writing System Declaration from this list would be

<!ENTITY xxxx PUBLIC
    " -//TEI-1994//NOTATION WSD for YYY //EN" >

where xxxxx corresponds with the short name given in the list below, and YYY with the longer description provided.

Writing system declarations corresponding to some standard character sets include:

ISO646ss ISO 646 Non-national Subset
ISO646ir ISO 646 International Reference Version
ISO88591 ISO 8859 Part 1 (Latin 1, Western Europe)
ISO88592 ISO 8859 Part 2 (Latin 2, Eastern Europe)
ISO88595 ISO 8859 Part 5 (Latin and Cyrillic)
ISO88597 ISO 8859 Part 7 (Latin and Greek)
ISO88598 ISO 8859 Part 8 (Latin and Hebrew)
ISO88599 ISO 8859 Part 9 (Latin 5, Western Europe and Turkey)

Writing system declarations documenting special sets of entities for different alphabets, or commonly used transliteration systems, include the following:

TEIarb
TEI Entities for Arabic
TEIcop
TEI Entities for Coptic
TEIgrk
TEI Entities for Greek
TEIipa
TEI Entities for International Phonetic Alphabet

All standard TEI writing system declarations may be obtained from the same file servers as are listed in chapter 36 .