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Article #2376ASCII digraphs for ISO 8859-1 requested
From: nils-peter.nelson
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 1991 22:39
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 1991 22:39
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I've received a proposal from Keizer, Simonsen and Akkerhuis for 2 character representations for the additional 128 characters in ISO 8859-1. Dennis Ritchie had already implemented a competing convention for Research UNIX for keyboard entry. For example, for the open French quote, or left angle quote mark, position 10/11, K/S/A suggest \(Fo, Ritchie suggests \(<<. If you have such a key on your keyboard, this is not an issue; if you don't, is there a common digraph in existence? Viz., does everyone type "dead-key char1 char2" the same way, or is it hopelessly local. To the point, are there any more proposals out there for how to represent 8 bit characters in a 7 bit subset? mail to npn@mhuxo.att.com. My goal is to have the troff convention be the same as the keyboard convention most familiar to people, if such a thing exists.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!emory!att!cbnewsl!npn From: npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: ASCII digraphs for ISO 8859-1 requested Keywords: troff, dwb Message-ID: <1991Jan7.223914.19056@cbnewsl.att.com> Date: 7 Jan 91 22:39:14 GMT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 16