Re: ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1)

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From: Keld J|rn Simonsen
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 1991 21:56

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tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) writes:

>Does the ISO 8859 standard designate any function or behavior
>for control codes between hex 80 and 9F?  Are they supposed to be
>just like the control codes between hex 00 and 1F, except with
>the 8th bit turned on?  My 8859 sample pages just show gray boxes
>in all these positions, and the Unicode standard just has CTRL
>in boxes 80-9F (though it has specific names in 00-1F).

There is another standard for control codes, namely ISO 6429:1988,
which defines these control characters. No they are different
from 00 - 1f.

Keld Simonsen

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