Re: ISO 10646 files

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 21:17

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Submitted-by: peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)

In article <16rpgaINNol0@ftp.UU.NET> david@mks.com (David Rowley) writes:
> Note that UTF and 8-bit Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1) are identical for
> characters 0x00 to 0x9f.  Codepoints above 0x9f are used to
> introduce the multibyte sequences.

That seems strange. 0x80 through 0x9f are all controls, and all the
national characters in Latin-1 are in 0xA0 to 0xFF. Why would they allow
Latin-1 control codes (CSI, etc) and blow off all the graphics? Are you
sure they didn't overload the high control range (0x80 to 0x9f)? That
would seem a much more useful encoding.
-- 
Peter da Silva
Ferranti Intl. Ctls. Corp.      Sugar Land, TX  77487-5012       +1 713 274 5180


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