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melby@dove.yk.fujitsu.co.jp (John B. Melby) writes:

>The Northern European subsets of ISO 646 are 7-bit codes, so there
>is no high bit to be stripped.  Although they are relatively
>obsolete, they are commonly used on the net, partially because
>the net is not 8-bit transparent, and partially because they are
>easily recognizable even by users with ASCII fonts.

>[ {	= AE or A:, ae or a:
>] }	= AA aa (more precisely, aring, a.k.a. Angstrom symbol)
>\ |	= O/ or O:, o/ or o:

The assignment of the Danish/Norwegian letters are very logical.

ae, o/ and aa follows z in that order in the alphabet, so they
get the next characters after z {|}. The Swedish alphabet,
however, ends "o, "a, aa. So in "Swedish ASCII", the
letters are not even in alphabetical order. Someone must
have decided that it was more important to have Swedish
letters print as the letters with the same pronounciation
on Danish and Norwegian printers.

Klaus O K