Re: IA5 International Reference Version

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From: Philip Gladstone
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1991 18:30

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>>>>> On 31 Mar 91 09:21:57 GMT, Dan@dna.lth.se (Dan Oscarsson) said:

Dan> It would be nice if IA5 was the same as ISO 8859-1.

Dan> What is in IA5 today? Which characters in IA5 makes it claim to be an
Dan> international alphabet?
Dan> What standard organization has defined IA5? Not ISO I assume.

IA5 (it's full name is International Alphabet No. 5) is defined in
CCITT Recommendation T.50. According to a note, it claims that this
recommendation corresponds to International Standard ISO 646.

The [recommendation|standard] is unsatisafactory in that it defines a
whole collection of character sets which are all variants of each
other. There is one distinguished version -- "the International
Refernce Version (IRV)" which defines all the characters. 

As I understand the situation, there is a move afoot to change the 2/4
character from the crown symbol to the dollar sign.

I hope this clears up any confusion.

Philip
--
Philip Gladstone         Dev Lab Europe, Data General, Cambridge, UK

    Why don't I just go zootlewurdle? Does it matter? Even if it does
    matter, does it matter that it matters?

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