Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!draken!psv From: psv@nada.kth.se (Peter Svanberg) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: ASCII for national characters Message-ID: <2409@draken.nada.kth.se> Date: 27 Nov 89 08:43:48 GMT References: <472@enea.se> <2942@psivax.UUCP> <1083@mountn.dec.com> <2382@draken.nada.kth.se> Reply-To: psv@nada.kth.se (Peter Svanberg) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 21 I wrote: > > Are you stating that the document I have - "International Standard > ISO 8859-1, First edition 1987-02-15" - isn't valid any more? > rlee@weaver.ads.com (Richard Lee) answered: > 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". Sorry, I intermixed it with the discussion about slashed O. So as it's a ligature, the same things apply as in the discussion about the ij ligature, I suppose. --- psv@nada.kth.se Peter Svanberg uunet!nada.kth.se!psv (for lazy nodes...) Dept of Num An & CS psv%nada.kth.se@uunet.uu.net (ARPA nodes) Royal Institute of Tech Stockholm, SWEDEN