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Started by Jan Hardenbergh
Fri, 13 May 1988 17:00
Re: ISO 8859
Author: Jan Hardenbergh
Date: Fri, 13 May 1988 17:00
Date: Fri, 13 May 1988 17:00
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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
It is important to distinguish a character set from a font. ISO 8859/1 is
a character set. A "byte 8-bit encodement of graphical character shapes"
means that a certain bit pattern should look like a certain glyph. An a
is an a. It does not specificy a particular graphical representation the
way a font does - Helvetica. 8859/1 is also called ISO Latin Alphabet #1.
Jan Hardenbergh {decvax,mit-eddie,umix}!apollo!jch Apollo Computer
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