sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog) (07/04/87)
Below follows a draft to ISO-Latin/1 that was posted to this group
a year and a half ago. Does anyone know if this draft has become
a standard or has it been modified?
For their VT200 series DEC uses something they call "DEC multi-
national character set". It is a somewhat incomplete version of
the ISO drat with some differences. Does these differences reflect
changes from the draft or are they just DEC's own invention?
Please send your responses by mail to sommar@enea.se.
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The byte value is in the document represented by a notation xx/yy, where
xx is the upper nibble (four bits), and yy is the lower nibble (in decimal!).
The lower part of the table, i.e. positions 02/00 to 07/14 is exactly the
same as ASCII.
The upper part of the table contains the characters we can't live without
in large parts of the world.
Since I do not know how to send pictures in a standardised way (is macpaint
documents OK?), I here include a table from ISO No.1:
10/00 NO-BREAK SPACE
10/01 INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK
10/02 CENT SIGN
10/03 POUND SIGN
10/04 CURRENCY SIGN
10/05 YEN SIGN
10/06 BROKEN BAR
10/07 PARAGRAPH SIGN, SECTION SIGN
10/08 DIAERESIS
10/09 COPYRIGHT SIGN
10/10 FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR
10/11 LEFT ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
10/12 NOT SIGN
10/13 SOFT HYPHEN
10/14 REGISTERED TRADE MARK SIGN
10/15 MACRON
11/00 DEGREE SIGN
11/01 PLUS-MINUS SIGN
11/02 SUPERSCRIPT TWO
11/03 SUPERSCRIPT THREE
11/04 ACUTE ACCENT
11/05 SMALL GREEK LETTER MU, MICRO SIGN
11/06 PILCROW SIGN
11/07 MIDDLE DOT
11/08 CEDILLA
11/09 SUPERSCRIPT ONE
11/10 MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR
11/11 RIGHT ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
11/12 VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER
11/13 VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
11/14 VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS
11/15 INVERTED QUESTION MARK
12/00 CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE ACCENT
12/01 CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE ACCENT
12/02 CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
12/03 CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE
12/04 CAPITAL LETTER A DIAERESIS
12/05 CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
12/06 CAPITAL DIPHTHONG A WITH E
12/07 CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
12/08 CAPITAL LETTER E WITH GRAVE ACCENT
12/09 CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE ACCENT
12/10 CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
12/11 CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
12/12 CAPITAL LETTER I WITH GRAVE ACCENT
12/13 CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE ACCENT
12/14 CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
12/15 CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS
13/00 CAPITAL ICELANDIC LETTER ETH
13/01 CAPITAL LETTER N WITH TILDE
13/02 CAPITAL LETTER O WITH GRAVE ACCENT
13/03 CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE ACCENT
13/04 CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
13/05 CAPITAL LETTER O WITH TILDE
13/06 CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
13/07 (This position shall not be used)
13/08 CAPITAL LETTER O WITH OBLIQUE STROKE
13/09 CAPITAL LETTER U WITH GRAVE ACCENT
13/10 CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE ACCENT
13/11 CAPITAL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
13/12 CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
13/13 CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE ACCENT
13/14 CAPITAL ICELANDIC LETTER THORN
13/15 SMALL GERMAN LETTER SHARP s
14/00 SMALL LETTER a WITH GRAVE ACCENT
14/01 SMALL LETTER a WITH ACUTE ACCENT
14/02 SMALL LETTER a WITH CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
14/03 SMALL LETTER a WITH TILDE
14/04 SMALL LETTER a WITH DIAERESIS
14/05 SMALL LETTER a WITH RING ABOVE
14/06 SMALL DIPHTHONG a WITH e
14/07 SMALL LETTER c WITH CEDILLA
14/08 SMALL LETTER e WITH GRAVE ACCENT
14/09 SMALL LETTER e WITH ACUTE ACCENT
14/10 SMALL LETTER e WITH CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
14/11 SMALL LETTER e WITH DIAERESIS
14/12 SMALL LETTER i WITH GRAVE ACCENT
14/13 SMALL LETTER i WITH ACUTE ACCENT
14/14 SMALL LETTER i WITH CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
14/15 SMALL LETTER i WITH DIAERESIS
15/00 SMALL ICELANDIC LETTER ETH
15/01 SMALL LETTER n WITH TILDE
15/02 SMALL LETTER o WITH GRAVE ACCENT
15/03 SMALL LETTER o WITH ACUTE ACCENT
15/04 SMALL LETTER o WITH CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
15/05 SMALL LETTER o WITH TILDE
15/06 SMALL LETTER o WITH DIAERESIS
15/07 (This position shall not be used)
15/08 SMALL LETTER o WITH OBLIQUE STROKE
15/09 SMALL LETTER u WITH GRAVE ACCENT
15/10 SMALL LETTER u WITH ACUTE ACCENT
15/11 SMALL LETTER u WITH CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
15/12 SMALL LETTER u WITH DIAERESIS
15/13 SMALL LETTER y WITH ACUTE ACCENT
15/14 SMALL ICELANDIC LETTER THORN
15/15 SMALL LETTER y WITH DIAERESIS
End of table
So, go ahead and start implementing the standard on Unix. I
desperately need it!
-- Dan Sahlin ..!mcvax!enea!ttds!dan
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Erland Sommarskog
ENEA Data, Stockholm
sommar@enea.UUCP
lasko@video.dec.com (Tim Lasko[TBU Architecture]DTN 223-2186) (07/11/87)
ISO Latin-1, or more completely ISO Latin Alphabet No 1, is now an
international standard as of February 1987 (IS 8859, Part 1).
For those American USEnet'rs that care, the 8-bit ASCII standard,
which is essentially the same code, is going through the final
administrative processes prior to publication.
The code table that was posted earlier by Mr. Sommarskog to the net is from
an earlier draft of the standard, the following changes have been made:
OLD DRAFT:
13/07 (This position shall not be used)
15/07 (This position shall not be used)
FINAL STANDARD:
13/07 MULTIPLICATION SIGN
15/07 DIVISION SIGN
Those two characters were added mainly out of the fear that individual vendors
would use the positions for non-interchangeable and incompatible purposes,
thus defeating the idea of the standard. The two symbols chosen were more
or less a compromise from a large list of eligible characters.
ISO Latin-1 (IS 8859/1) is actually one of an entire family of eight-bit
one-byte character sets, all having ASCII on the left hand side, and with
varying repertoires on the right hand side:
Pt 1. Latin Alphabet No 1 (caters to Western Europe - now approved)
Pt 2. Latin Alphabet No 2 (caters to Eastern Europe - now approved)
Pt 3. Latin Alphabet No 3 (caters to SE Europe + others - in draft ballot)
Pt 4. Latin Alphabet No 4 (caters to Northern Europe - in draft ballot)
Pt 5. Latin-Cyrillic alphabet (right half all Cyrillic - processing
currently suspended pending USSR input)
Pt 6. Latin-Arabic alphabet (right half all Arabic - now approved)
Pt 7. Latin-Greek alphabet (right half Greek + symbols - in draft ballot)
Pt 8. Latin-Hebrew alphabet (right half Hebrew + symbols - proposed)
I expect to update this list shortly, because next week I'm attending the
meeting of the ISO Working Group concerned with these standards is being held.
(ISO TC97/SC2/WG3 for those that can decipher that.)
Regarding DEC Multinational: The development of DEC Multinational
preceded the original ISO drafts, which largely explains the differences.
It was actually ECMA, the European Computer Manufacturers Association, who
first proposed a eight-bit, one-byte code table similar to what became
ISO Latin-1 today.
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Tim Lasko Digital Equipment Corporation Maynard, MA
(video!lasko@dec.COM <-- boy I hope that's right...)