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Article #836Re: Character sets: ISO 6937 vs ISO 8859
From: Robert Claeson
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 1990 19:58
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 1990 19:58
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In a recent article K.P.Donnelly@edinburgh.ac.uk writes:
>ISO 8859-1 is a development of the DEC multinational character set.
Actually, the way I got this explained for me was that when DEC needed
an 8 bit character set, they took an early draft of ISO 8859/1. Later
drafts of ISO 8859/1 changed, and thus there are now about 10 characters
in the right half that's different between DEC Multinational and ISO
8859/1.
The DEC VT200 series has DEC Multinational as the only 8 bit character
set. The VT300 and VT400 series adds the true ISO 8859/1 character
set.
Anyone who knows the *true* story behind this?
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