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From: ok@mudla.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Richard O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: ASCII for national characters
Message-ID: <2766@munnari.oz.au>
Date: 21 Nov 89 11:11:37 GMT
References: <472@enea.se> <2942@psivax.UUCP>
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In article <2942@psivax.UUCP>, torkil@psivax.UUCP (Torkil Hammer) writes:
> What I read is that the ESO got botched.  Some national letters
> were overlooked, including the slashed o used in Danish and Norwegian
> for the umlaut o, written o: in other European languages.

In ISO 8859/1,
	D8   = 216   = upper-case-O-with-a-slash-through-it
	  16      10

	F8   = 248   = lower-case-o-with-a-slash-through it
	  16	  10

> Danes are not likely to tolerate the o: as a substitute, and I doubt
> Norwegians are.

If they use ISO 8859/1, they don't have to use o: as a substitute.
(Now if only 8859/1 had included 66--99 and 6--9 quotation marks...)