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- From: unrza3@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,news.admin.misc
- Subject: Re: 8-bit representation, plus an X problem
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 14:57:55 +0100
- Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
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- kosta@blues.kk.sub.org (Kosta Kostis) writes:
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- >If one decides to use ISO 8859-1 as the common character set for news
- >one has support for 44 countries in the world (according to the standard).
- >Should you use ISO 8859-x, add even more countries. Most of them
- >"indo-european". If you stay with US ASCII the number is much lower.
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- Most amusingly, US-ASCII does not even cover English.
- E.g. look at r⌠le in your dictionary. :-)
-
- Markus
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