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Article #63Re: ASCII for national characters
From: Martin Minow
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1989 16:41
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1989 16:41
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In article <2942@psivax.UUCP> torkil@psivax.UUCP (Torkil Hammer) states that slashed-O was omitted from ISO 8859-1. Actually, upper- and lower-case variants are in Latin-1 at hex D8 and F8 respectively (assuming Latin-1 is in the "right half" of the code space). 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.) Another missing character is the Dutch ij ligature, which is imperfectly represented by y-dieresis. Otherwise, it seems to me that most Western European languages are well-supported by Latin-1. Exceptions include Turkish and the Slavic languages written in Roman letters. Martin Minow minow@thundr.enet.dec.com The above does not represent the position of Digital Equipment Corporation
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!aplcen!haven!decuac!shlump.nac.dec.com!mountn.dec.com!minow From: minow@mountn.dec.com (Martin Minow) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: ASCII for national characters Message-ID: <1083@mountn.dec.com> Date: 21 Nov 89 16:41:14 GMT References: <472@enea.se> <2942@psivax.UUCP> Reply-To: minow@mountn.dec.com (Martin Minow) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 17