Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!sunic!enea!sommar
From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: ASCII for national characters
Message-ID: <500@enea.se>
Date: 25 Nov 89 20:07:22 GMT
Organization: Enea Data AB, Sweden
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Martin Minow (minow@mountn.UUCP) writes:
>The standardization bodies realized in the early 1980's that ISO-646
>was not a satisfactory solution, and built on the Dec Multinational
>character set to form ISO Latin-1,

I'm a little surprised by this. My impression is that it was the
other way round. Digital took the drafts of Latin-1 and made
DEC Multinational. But I have no sources that confirms that.
-- 
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se