Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!genbank!ames!zodiac!rlee From: rlee@weaver.ads.com (Richard Lee) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: ASCII for national characters Message-ID: Date: 24 Nov 89 18:47:14 GMT References: <472@enea.se> <2942@psivax.UUCP> <1083@mountn.dec.com> <2382@draken.nada.kth.se> Sender: news@zodiac.ADS.COM Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 22 In-reply-to: psv@nada.kth.se's message of 23 Nov 89 12:22:55 GMT In article <2382@draken.nada.kth.se> psv@nada.kth.se (Peter Svanberg) writes: 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.) Now _I'm_ confused! My copy of that _same_ document (ISO 8859-1 First Edition 1987-02-15; Reference number ISO 8859-1: 1987 (E)) _does_ have the multiplication and division signs exactly as Martin described. Quoting from Table 1, page 4: "13/07 MULTIPLICATION SIGN" and "15/07 DIVISION SIGN". -- RICHARD LEE rlee@ads.com or ...!{sri-spam | ames}!zodiac!rlee 415-960-7300 ADS, 1500 Plymouth St., Mtn. View CA 94043-1230