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Re: ASCII for national characters

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From: Peter Svanberg
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1989 12:22
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In article <1083@mountn.dec.com> minow@mountn.dec.com (Martin Minow) writes:
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>  :
>However, late in the development of Latin-1, the OE and oe ligature
>characters were removed, and were replaced by the "multiply" and
>"division" signs.  (I will not defend this decision.)
>

Are you stating that the document I have - "International Standard
ISO 8859-1, First edition 1987-02-15" - isn't valid any more? Are there
other changes than the characters you name? (It seems strange to change
a published standard so seriously.)
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psv@nada.kth.se			(should work!)	       Peter Svanberg
uunet!nada.kth.se!psv		(for lazy nodes...)    Dept of Num An & CS
psv%nada.kth.se@uunet.uu.net	(ARPA nodes)	       Royal Institute of Tech
						       Stockholm, SWEDEN
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From: psv@nada.kth.se (Peter Svanberg)
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Subject: Re: ASCII for national characters
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Date: 23 Nov 89 12:22:55 GMT
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