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From: psv@nada.kth.se (Peter Svanberg)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: ASCII for national characters
Message-ID: <2382@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 23 Nov 89 12:22:55 GMT
References: <472@enea.se> <2942@psivax.UUCP> <1083@mountn.dec.com>
Reply-To: psv@nada.kth.se (Peter Svanberg)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <1083@mountn.dec.com> minow@mountn.dec.com (Martin Minow) writes:
>  :
>  :
>However, late in the development of Latin-1, the OE and oe ligature
>characters were removed, and were replaced by the "multiply" and
>"division" signs.  (I will not defend this decision.)
>

Are you stating that the document I have - "International Standard
ISO 8859-1, First edition 1987-02-15" - isn't valid any more? Are there
other changes than the characters you name? (It seems strange to change
a published standard so seriously.)
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