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ISO 8859/1 Latin Alphabet #1

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From: Charles S. Roberson
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1988 11:59
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I saw this on a unix mailing list and was curious if anyone could confirm
it.  Does the ST actually conform to this extended character set?

---begin forwarded message---
From: Peter da Silva <peter%sugar.UUCP@uunet.UU.NET>
Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
Subject: Re: 8-Bit ASCII Standard on UNIX-POSIX
Reply-To: sugar!peter@uunet.UU.NET (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
Date: 14 Apr 88 00:54:17 GMT
Apparently-To: std-unix-list

From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)

>  From: guy@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
> The ISO 8859/1 character set, also known as "ISO Latin
> Alphabet #1", has been adopted or will be adopted by a number of vendors for
> Western European use; AT&T ... Sun ... Apollo ... DEC ...

Add the Commodore Amiga and (I think) the Atari ST to the list...
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Volume-Number: Volume 13, Number 51

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Thanks,
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Subject: ISO 8859/1 Latin Alphabet #1
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