gordan@maccs.UUCP (Gordan Palameta) (08/07/87)
In article <5189@utcsri.UUCP> flaps@utcsri.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal) writes: > >The ISO Latin 1 standard is based on this idea... it claims to work for >Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, >Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish (as used in >specific countries.. I won't bother with the country list as it is longer). > > [list of various characters applicable to French] A description of a preliminary version of ISO Latin 1 was given in the August 1985 issue of BYTE magazine (on page 26, in the Letters section). I believe that the ISO Latin 1 standard as officially adopted in February 1987 corresponds exactly to this table, with the only difference being positions 13/07 and 15/07, previously unused, are assigned to the multiplication sign and division sign respectively. In a nutshell, the first 128 characters of ISO Latin 1 are US ASCII; the next 32 are non-printing "control"-type characters; the next 32 are various punctuation and special characters (cent sign, pound symbol, yen symbol, copyright symbol, upside down ! and ? for Spanish, etc), and the final 64 are Western European accented letters for the most part. Apparently, ISO Latin 1 is part of a family of 8-bit ASCII standards. Other standards include one for Eastern European characters, one for Arabic, etc. I think they all share US ASCII as the first 128 characters in the set. -- UUCP: ... !mnetor!lsuc!maccs!gordan BITNET: GP@TANDEM "Sumasshedshii vsekh stran, soyedinyaites'" Gordan Palameta
gordan@maccs.UUCP (Gordan Palameta) (08/08/87)
In article <700@maccs.UUCP> I write: > >A description of a preliminary version of ISO Latin 1 was given in the >August 1985 issue of BYTE magazine (on page 26, in the Letters section). Tim Lasko has just posted a description of ISO Latin 1 in comp.std.internat (message ID <11292@decwrl.DEC.COM> ). I mention this for the benefit of anyone who might be interested but does not subscribe to that newsgroup. -- UUCP: ... !mnetor!lsuc!maccs!gordan BITNET: GP@TANDEM "Sumasshedshii vsekh stran, soyedinyaites'" Gordan Palameta