sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) (02/01/89)
Sandra Martin (sandi@apollo.COM) writes: >I can provide the Latin-1 compose sequences if anyone wants them. >We use DEC's defacto standard for these sequences. I didn't DEC had a de facto standard for Latin-1. I didn't even knew they were supporting Latin-1. In the VMS environment at least all they have is DEC Multinational Character Set, which in many parts is the same as Latin-1, but with some differences. DEC's set is not full, some code are left undefined. And some code have different meaning. For instance DEC has the OE ligature where Latin-1 has the multiplication sign. The difference are due to that DEC fixed their set before Latin-1 was settled, so they based their set on a draft. As for the compose codes I'm not really fond all of of them. I very often type Compose-3-3 instead of Compose-a-a to get an at sign, since the "3" has this sign on it. But in 8-bit mode I get a section sign instead. And I wish Compose-8-8 had been allowed as an alternative for Compose-(-( to get a left bracket. (And same for right bracket (shift 9) and back slash (shift 7)) And how to get braces and a vertical bar I still haven't found out.... -- Erland Sommarskog ENEA Data, Stockholm This signature is not to be quoted. sommar@enea.se