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- From: linhart@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mike Threepoint)
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- Bo Thide (irf@kuling) recently described it [ISO 8859/1 -mod] as 191
- characters cleverly designed with capitals coded as shifted miniscules,
- including eth (which I'm not sure what it is), thorn, and sharp S.
-
- To possibly add to the list, this sounds like the character set
- Microsoft Windows uses and terms (by no standard I know of) "ANSI".
- It has the vowels in acute, grave, circumflex, tilde, and umlaut.
- The high bit characters also include cent, pound, yen, and universal
- currency symbols, circle-R trademark and circle-C copyright symbols,
- inverted ? and !, section and paragraph symbols, << guillemets >>,
- several accents, 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 characters, and superscripted 1, 2,
- and 3. The last sound like a bad idea to me, so I actually hope this
- is something they threw together themselves.
-
- Sound like ISO 8859? If not, I would be quite interested to know just
- what it is. How much do I send to where (if you can't just mail me a
- copy)?
-
- What I would also like to see is the ASCII 0..1F (31 dec.) graphic
- representations on new machines conform to the ANSI standard. They
- might look impractical, but after setting up a font using them on my
- micro, it's amazing how much sense they make to me.
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