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- From: guy@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
-
- > I understand that the standardization of 8-bit extended ASCII
- > is too late.
-
- You're probably right. There is already a family of ISO extended character
- sets, the ISO 8859 family, that are extensions of ASCII and are being adopted
- by many UNIX systems. 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 has adopted t, Sun plans to do so, I believe Apollo
- has done so, DEC's international character set is similar to it and they may
- have adopted it, and I think X/Open has already specified it.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 13, Number 42
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