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- From: peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
- Subject: Re: ISO 10646 files
- Date: 23 Aug 1992 14:17:26 -0700
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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- Submitted-by: peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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- In article <16rpgaINNol0@ftp.UU.NET> david@mks.com (David Rowley) writes:
- > Note that UTF and 8-bit Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1) are identical for
- > characters 0x00 to 0x9f. Codepoints above 0x9f are used to
- > introduce the multibyte sequences.
-
- That seems strange. 0x80 through 0x9f are all controls, and all the
- national characters in Latin-1 are in 0xA0 to 0xFF. Why would they allow
- Latin-1 control codes (CSI, etc) and blow off all the graphics? Are you
- sure they didn't overload the high control range (0x80 to 0x9f)? That
- would seem a much more useful encoding.
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- Peter da Silva
- Ferranti Intl. Ctls. Corp. Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012 +1 713 274 5180
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- Volume-Number: Volume 29, Number 8
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