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Article #436Re: 8-bit representation, plus an X problem
From: Markus Kuhn
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 13:57
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 13:57
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kosta@blues.kk.sub.org (Kosta Kostis) writes: >If one decides to use ISO 8859-1 as the common character set for news >one has support for 44 countries in the world (according to the standard). >Should you use ISO 8859-x, add even more countries. Most of them >"indo-european". If you stay with US ASCII the number is much lower. Most amusingly, US-ASCII does not even cover English. E.g. look at rôle in your dictionary. :-) Markus -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Science student -=-=- University of Erlangen, Germany Internet: mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de | X.500 entry available ----- Anyone participating in the use of MS-DOS, Heroin or Cocaine is ----- ---- simply not getting the most out of life possible. (Brian Downing) ----
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!emory!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!uni-erlangen.de!not-for-mail From: unrza3@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,news.admin.misc Subject: Re: 8-bit representation, plus an X problem Date: 16 Dec 1992 14:57:55 +0100 Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen Message-ID: <1gncl3EINN22j@uni-erlangen.de> References: <171@complex.complex.is> <eaRsVB2w165w@blues.kk.sub.org> Reply-To: mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de NNTP-Posting-Host: cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de Lines: 17 Keywords: ISO8859-1 CP850 fidonet gateway