ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) (06/17/91)
In article <15480016@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> ritchie@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (David Ritchie) writes: | >In article <3188@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk>, neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) writes: | >Darnded right! Atari really screwed up. Why didn't they use the IBM character | | The real question is why IBM doesn't have Bob in its character set. Well, actually why doesn't *everyone* use ISO-Latin-1 ? -- Ralph P. Sobek Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own. ralph@laas.fr Addresses are ordered by importance. ralph@laas.uucp, or ...!uunet!laas!ralph If all else fails, try: sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU =============================================================================== Proud owner of a Mega 4 ST. Wishing it was a Mega STe! :-|
warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) (06/19/91)
>| >Darnded right! Atari really screwed up. Why didn't they use the IBM character >| >| The real question is why IBM doesn't have Bob in its character set. >Well, actually why doesn't *everyone* use ISO-Latin-1 ? I heard Atari was trying to capture the Arab market (so that's what all those squiggles are!) Warwick. -- _-_|\ warwick@cs.uq.oz.au / * <-- Computer Science Department, \_.-._/ University of Queensland, v Brisbane, AUSTRALIA.
jimomura@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Omura) (06/19/91)
In article <2007@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes: > >>| >Darnded right! Atari really screwed up. Why didn't they use the IBM character >>| >>| The real question is why IBM doesn't have Bob in its character set. > >>Well, actually why doesn't *everyone* use ISO-Latin-1 ? > >I heard Atari was trying to capture the Arab market (so that's what all those >squiggles are!) Well, actually, the North American version has Hebrew letters. We don't have Arabic. -- Jim Omura, 2A King George's Drive, Toronto, (416) 652-3880 lsuc!jimomura Byte Information eXchange: jimomura
adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David) (06/20/91)
In <RALPH.91Jun17145750@orion.laas.fr> ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes: >Well, actually why doesn't *everyone* use ISO-Latin-1 ? Otherwise known as 8859-1. It is the character set used on this here Uni* system. Also all ST, Amiga and Archimedes sold in Iceland use Latin-1. Pity about IBM and Apple, but we all know they aren't *real* (please no flames). I wonder which other countries have ISO 8859-1 installed in their Atari systems. Email answers please, I will summarise. -- Adam David. (adamd@rhi.hi.is)
silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) (06/21/91)
In article <1991Jun19.145148.3668@lsuc.on.ca> jimomura@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Omura) writes: >In article <2007@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes: > Well, actually, the North American version has Hebrew letters. >We don't have Arabic. That has always puzzled me. There aren't enough letters there to write either Hebrew or Yiddish, and only a few letters (like alef) are used in other languages. What does a partial Hebrew alphabet do for you? -- William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2. Tel. (902)426-1577 UUCP=..!{uunet|watmath}!dalcs!biome!silvert BITNET=silvert%biome%dalcs@dalac InterNet=silvert%biome@cs.dal.ca