lasko@video.dec.com (Tim - DSG Terminals Architecture - 223-2186) (05/17/88)
In article <52702@sun.uucp> glennw%noddy@Sun.COM (Glenn P. Wright) wrote: >One key feature of 8859 is that it includes 7-bit US ASCII >representation in the bottom half of each and every subset of the standard. To this, Fridrik Skulason (frisk@rhi.uucp, University of Iceland) replied: >Not every subset - at least one has the international currency sign instead >of the dollar sign at position 24. I have to disagree with Fridrik's reply: each and every part of ISO 8859 has the DOLLAR SIGN in code position 2/4: it is an overriding design feature of these code tables. (I sit on the relevant ISO committee.) While ISO 646 and 4873 (7-bit and 8-bit code structure standards) permit the option of 2/4 being GENERAL CURRENCY SIGN, ISO 8859 provides DOES NOT provide this option. The only ISO 8-bit code that I am aware of which has GENERAL CURRENCY SIGN in 2/4 is ISO 6937-2, used primarily for CCITT Telematic services. (There is also some talk on changing that lone exception within the committee.) ----Timothy Lasko, Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Mass., USA ----lasko@video.DEC.COM decvax!video.dec.com!lasko lasko%video.dec@decwrl