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Re: ASCII for national characters

#77
From: Peter Svanberg
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1989 08:43
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I wrote:
>
>  Are you stating that the document I have - "International Standard
>  ISO 8859-1, First edition 1987-02-15" - isn't valid any more?
>
rlee@weaver.ads.com (Richard Lee) answered:
>  Now _I'm_ confused!  My copy of that _same_ document (ISO 8859-1 First
>  Edition 1987-02-15; Reference number ISO 8859-1: 1987 (E)) _does_ have
>  the multiplication and division signs exactly as Martin described.
>  Quoting from Table 1, page 4: "13/07  MULTIPLICATION SIGN" and "15/07
>  DIVISION SIGN".

Sorry, I intermixed it with the discussion about slashed O.

So as it's a ligature, the same things apply as in the discussion
about the ij ligature, I suppose.
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psv@nada.kth.se					       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: 27 Nov 89 08:43:48 GMT
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