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Article #1151Re: 8-Bit ASCII Standard on UNIX-POSIX
From: Moderator, John S. Quarterman
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 1988 13:57
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 1988 13:57
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From: uunet!rutgers.edu!mtune!homxb!hrs (H.SILBIGER) In article <161@longway.TIC.COM>, guy@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes: > From: guy@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) > > > currency symbols, circle-R trademark and circle-C copyright symbols, > > inverted ? and !, section and paragraph symbols, << guillemets >>, > > and 3. The last sound like a bad idea to me, so I actually hope this > > Sound like ISO 8859? > > Yes. The superscripted letters *do* come from ISO 8859 (see below). > > There is another ISO standard that handles all latin alphabets, known as ISO6937. There is a CCITT equivalent. This character set is characteristically used in text communication applications, such as document architecture, teletex, message handling, etc. ISO 8859 is used mainly in the computer processing environment. [ Because ISO 6937 buys extreme flexibility by composing characters as two-byte combinations of basic character and accent, while ISO 8859 encodes every character as one byte. I saw this on comp.std.internat, which I recommend everybody interested in this discussion should read. -mod ] Herman Silbiger batavier!hrs@ATT.COM Volume-Number: Volume 13, Number 50
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!longway!std-unix From: std-unix@longway.TIC.COM (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Re: 8-Bit ASCII Standard on UNIX-POSIX Message-ID: <162@longway.TIC.COM> Date: 9 Apr 88 13:57:53 GMT References: <161@longway.TIC.COM> Reply-To: uunet!rutgers.edu!mtune!homxb!hrs (H.SILBIGER) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel Lines: 29 Summary: ISO 6937 Approved: jsq@longway.tic.com (Moderator, John S. Quarterman)