ECO8941@ecostat.aau.dk (Povl H. Pedersen) (01/15/91)
I am using MacMINIX on a machine with a foreign (danish) keyboard, and I have some problems with the 8 bit national/accented characters. Before trying to make support for these I would like to know if there is any standard for mapping special characters into the ASCII table. I would also like to know if MINIX in general is 8 bit character compatible. If there is no standard 8 bit mapping, then I will suggest that it should be implemented in some future version (1.6 or 1.7 ?), and I will also suggest that the mapping of these characters follow some common standard like the 8 bit ISO LATIN character set. Even my calculator (HP48sx) does so. Povl H. Pedersen eco8941@ecostat.aau.dk
mitchell@mdivax1 (01/15/91)
In article <41684@nigel.ee.udel.edu> ECO8941@ecostat.aau.dk (Povl H. Pedersen) writes: > >I am using MacMINIX on a machine with a foreign (danish) keyboard, and I >have some problems with the 8 bit national/accented characters. > >Before trying to make support for these I would like to know if there is >any standard for mapping special characters into the ASCII table. I don't know the answer to this, but would hazard a guess that any standard which does exist is set by a national standards committee in Denmark. If anybody knows of a central document detailing standards for mapping of various national alphabets into 7/8 bit codes, I'd appreciate a pointer to it. -- mitchell@mdi.com (Bill Mitchell)
vladimir@prosper.EBB.Eng.Sun.COM (Vladimir G. Ivanovic) (01/16/91)
In article <1991Jan15.150838.2877@mdivax1.uucp>
If anybody knows of a central document detailing standards for mapping
of various national alphabets into 7/8 bit codes, I'd appreciate a pointer
to it.
There is an ISO standard and or a ECMA standard which defines the Latin, Kana,
Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, APL and Hebrew sets. Sorry, no number...
-- Vladimir
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