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From: ruud@targon.UUCP (Ruud Harmsen)
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Subject: Re: Marketing wizardry & handling of far-east languages.
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Date: 9 Oct 89 13:02:19 GMT
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In article <2262@munnari.oz.au> ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:
>(a) ISO 8859 is a family of 8-bit character sets; in all of them the lower
>    half is ASCII.  There is a member of the ISO 8859 family for Cyrillic,
>    and I'm pretty sure each of the Eastern European languages listed is
>    covered in at least one member of the family.
It's ISO-8859/2, to be more precise.

>>   P.S. The computer czars have gotten away with it so far.  Now that
>>   Poland is about to re-join the Western society (in principle if not
>>   yet in spirit) there is one less excuse for not catering to 'East-
>>   European Commie languages'
And Hungary is another (and is also covered by ISO-8859/2)