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From: andrea@hp-sdd.hp.com (Andrea K. Frankel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Why Roman8?, Why not ISO?
Keywords: Roman8 ISO Character set Latin1
Message-ID: <2873@hp-sdd.hp.com>
Date: 30 Nov 89 19:20:14 GMT
References: <48853@bbn.COM>
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Reply-To: andrea@hpsdl114.UUCP (Andrea K. Frankel)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, San Diego Division
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In article <48853@bbn.COM> fkittred@spca.bbn.com (Fletcher Kittredge) writes:
>
>Is HP planning to support the ISO Latin-[1-3] character sets?  If so,
>when?

Please be a little more specific about what you mean by "support"!  Our
newest printers and plotters do offer at least Latin 1 (although in some
cases this varies according to which font cartridge(s) you have loaded).
Or are you talking about a specific software package, or a specific
platform (computer or workstation)?

>
>Does anyone other than HP support Roman8?  Is there an associated
>standard?

Roman8 is an HP-internal standard.  I am not aware of any other company
who has picked it up.  We invented it long before there was an ISO 8859,
and in fact contributed it as a working document to help the formulation
of that international character set standard.


Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 592-4664
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