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Article #263Re: Questions about LATIN-1 (8859-1)
From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 20:04
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 20:04
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In article <ENAG.91Apr22014328@maud.ifi.uio.no> enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) writes:
>According to what I heard from NSF, the Norwegian ISO member body,
>only Sweden and Germany insisted on the "currency symbol" at the time
>of ISO 646, and most other countries didn't care enough to counter
>their "need". This stupidity has been corrected in ISO 8859-1, and a
>correction is finding its way back to ISO 646.
And, oh boy, did we Swedish computer geeks have to pay for it... More
trouble than that caused I can't imagine... besides, Sweden doesn't use the
"sol" symbol for *anything*, so of what use is it?
I would much rather have seen the section sign (IBM Extended ASCII 0x15) in
the position of the $ or # sign (# and @ are quite worthless outside
America, really...)
- - - Peter
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Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!hpa From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Re: Questions about LATIN-1 (8859-1) Message-ID: <1991Apr23.200413.7216@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Organization: Northwestern University References: <1991Apr16.130422.16607@dde.dk> <EF.91Apr18144752@fidel.tools.uucp> <ENAG.91Apr22014328@maud.ifi.uio.no> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 20:04:13 GMT Lines: 21