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From: pedersen@philmtl.philips.ca (Paul Pedersen)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: ASCII for national characters
Message-ID: <850@philmtl.philips.ca>
Date: 23 Nov 89 14:01:09 GMT
References: <472@enea.se> <2942@psivax.UUCP>
Reply-To: pedersen@philmtl.philips.ca (Paul Pedersen)
Organization: Philips Electronics Ltd. -  St. Laurent  P.Q., Canada
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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.
>It does not help that the upper case variety of that letter is rather
>close to the slashed zero used in USA to tell it from the letter O.
>Danes are not likely to tolerate the o: as a substitute, and I doubt
>Norwegians are.  WW2 and 1905 and such.
>
>Can anybody confirm?
>
>Torkil Hammer

I've got ISO 8859-1:1987(E) "Latin alphabet No.1" in front of me and see
both character you say are missing :

    pos	    char
    F6	    small o umlaut
    D6	    big o umlaut
    F8	small o slashed
    D8	big o slashed

Did I misunderstand your question ?
Paul