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- From: guy@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
-
- > 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?
-
- Yes. The superscripted letters *do* come from ISO 8859 (see below).
-
- > 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.
-
- What "graphic representations" are you referring to? The only ANSI standard I
- know of for characters in the range 0x00 to 0x1f is ASCII, which says they're
- *control* characters, not *printable* characters.
-
- For your collective amusement, here is a chart of ISO 8859/1 or "ISO Latin
- Alphabet #1". This was derived by some quick hacking on the X11 include file
- "keysymdef.h" - yes, X11 uses the ISO character sets as well.
-
- non-breaking space 0xa0
- inverted exclamation point 0xa1
- cent sign 0xa2
- pounds sterling 0xa3
- "currency symbol" 0xa4
- yen 0xa5
- broken bar 0xa6
- section mark 0xa7
- diaeresis 0xa8
- copyright 0xa9
- feminine ordinal 0xaa
- (this is a subscripted lower-case "a", underlined)
- left guillemot 0xab
- (French left quote, looks like small "<<")
- not sign 0xac
- hyphen 0xad
- registered trademark 0xae
- macron 0xaf
- (an elevated small horizontal bar)
- degree symbol 0xb0
- plus/minus 0xb1
- superscript 2 0xb2
- superscript 3 0xb3
- acute accent 0xb4
- mu 0xb5
- paragraph symbol 0xb6
- small centered dot 0xb7
- cedilla 0xb8
- superscript 1 0xb9
- masculine ordinal 0xba
- (this is a subscripted lower-case "o", underlined)
- right guillemot 0xbb
- (French right quote, looks like small ">>")
- 1/4 0xbc
- 1/2 0xbd
- 3/4 0xbe
- inverted question mark 0xbf
- A with grave accent 0xc0
- A with acute accent 0xc1
- A with circumflex accent 0xc2
- A with tilde 0xc3
- A with diaeresis 0xc4
- A with ring 0xc5
- (as in "Angstrom")
- AE dipthong 0xc6
- C with cedilla 0xc7
- E with grave accent 0xc8
- E with acute accent 0xc9
- E with circumflex accent 0xca
- E with diaeresis 0xcb
- I with grave accent 0xcc
- I with acute accent 0xcd
- I with circumflex accent 0xce
- I with diaeresis 0xcf
- upper-case eth 0xd0
- (eth is an Icelandic letter)
- N with tilde 0xd1
- O with grave accent 0xd2
- O with acute accent 0xd3
- O with circumflex accent 0xd4
- O with tilde 0xd5
- O with diaeresis 0xd6
- multiply sign 0xd7
- O with slash 0xd8
- U with grave accent 0xd9
- U with acute accent 0xda
- U with circumflex accent 0xdb
- U with diaeresis 0xdc
- Y with acute accent 0xdd
- upper-case thorn 0xde
- (thorn is an Icelandic letter)
- German double-s 0xdf
- a with grave accent 0xe0
- a with acute accent 0xe1
- a with circumflex accent 0xe2
- a with tilde 0xe3
- a with diaeresis 0xe4
- a with ring 0xe5
- (lower-case "A with ring")
- ae dipthong 0xe6
- c with cedilla 0xe7
- e with grave accent 0xe8
- e with acute accent 0xe9
- e with circumflex accent 0xea
- e with diaeresis 0xeb
- i with grave accent 0xec
- i with acute accent 0xed
- i with circumflex accent 0xee
- i with diaeresis 0xef
- lower-case eth 0xf0
- n with tilde 0xf1
- o with grave accent 0xf2
- o with acute accent 0xf3
- o with circumflex accent 0xf4
- o with tilde 0xf5
- o with diaeresis 0xf6
- division sign 0xf7
- o with slash 0xf8
- u with grave accent 0xf9
- u with acute accent 0xfa
- u with circumflex accent 0xfb
- u with diaeresis 0xfc
- y with acute accent 0xfd
- lower-case thorn 0xfe
- y with diaeresis 0xff
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- Volume-Number: Volume 13, Number 49
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