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- From: uunet!rutgers.edu!mtune!homxb!hrs (H.SILBIGER)
-
- In article <161@longway.TIC.COM>, guy@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- > From: guy@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
- >
- > > currency symbols, circle-R trademark and circle-C copyright symbols,
- > > inverted ? and !, section and paragraph symbols, << guillemets >>,
- > > and 3. The last sound like a bad idea to me, so I actually hope this
- > > Sound like ISO 8859?
- >
- > Yes. The superscripted letters *do* come from ISO 8859 (see below).
- >
- >
- There is another ISO standard that handles all latin alphabets, known as
- ISO6937. There is a CCITT equivalent.
-
- This character set is characteristically used in text communication
- applications, such as document architecture, teletex, message handling, etc.
-
- ISO 8859 is used mainly in the computer processing environment.
-
- [ Because ISO 6937 buys extreme flexibility by composing characters as
- two-byte combinations of basic character and accent, while ISO 8859
- encodes every character as one byte. I saw this on comp.std.internat,
- which I recommend everybody interested in this discussion should read. -mod ]
-
- Herman Silbiger batavier!hrs@ATT.COM
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- Volume-Number: Volume 13, Number 50
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