Re: Int'l Character set

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From: Robert Claeson
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 1990 05:53

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In article <71@lysator.liu.se>, aronsson@lysator.liu.se (Lars Aronsson) writes:

> Now, if we are lucky, all these letters are in ISO 8859-1 thru -9 (are
> there nine?). But it seems we are stuck with this switching between
> character sets that we know so well from the 7-bit era. Does the ISO
> 8859 have codes that tell the equipment to set the right version or
> will we still do this by hand? Or should I learn postscript?

The ISO 2022 standard deals with character set switching within a
character stream.


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