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Article #931Re: ISO 8859
From: Glenn P. Wright
Date: Tue, 10 May 1988 19:22
Date: Tue, 10 May 1988 19:22
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In article <3801@zodiac.UUCP>, rlee@deimos.ads.com (Richard Lee) writes:
> Can someone tell me exactly what is defined by ISO standard 8859?
> Thanks.
This is the ISO standard for single byte 8-bit encodement of graphical
character shapes.
There are 6 (currently) subsets to this standard, the most popular
being IS-8859/1 which defines most characters required to support W.European
languages. One key feature of 8859 is that it includes 7-bit US ASCII
representation in the bottom half of each and every subset of the standard.
Glenn Wright. {..}glennw@sun or {..sun}!glennw
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!oliveb!sun!noddy!glennw From: glennw%noddy@Sun.COM (Glenn P. Wright) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: ISO 8859 Message-ID: <52702@sun.uucp> Date: 10 May 88 19:22:39 GMT References: <3801@zodiac.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 19 Summary: IS 8859