martillo@crackers.clearpoint.com (Martillo) (06/07/91)
Could someone mail me the name of the ISO standard which specifies encodings for character sets associated with different languages? I have heard that this encoding set is a superset of ASCII. Is there an ISO Terminal specification which is a superset of the ANSI Terminal specification? If so, I would be interested in learning the name of the document which specifies the ISO Terminal. Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo Ajami -- The statements contained in this article solely represent the views of the author and in no way do they reflect the official opinion or policy of Clearpoint Research Corporation.
carlson@mrx.webo.dg.com (James Carlson) (06/10/91)
If you're looking for character display encodings, you're looking for the ISO 8859 series. 8859/1.2 is called "Latin-1" and is the standard set for most European languages. There are several others for Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, et cetera. There's another standard for keyboard mappings, but I seem to have misplaced mine ... -- Disclaimer: I cannot speak for Data General. You should have guessed that. Mail to: carlson@mrx.webo.dg.com -or- James_Carlson@dgc.mceo.dg.com .//.