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From: fkittred@bbn.com (Fletcher Kittredge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Why Roman8?, Why not ISO?
Keywords: Roman8 ISO Character set Latin1
Message-ID: <48981@bbn.COM>
Date: 30 Nov 89 22:33:39 GMT
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In article <2873@hp-sdd.hp.com> andrea@hpsdl114.UUCP (Andrea K. Frankel) writes:
>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)?

Sure, more specifically, I am not really interested in what character set HP
devices support, (we can always get our customers to use X or to buy some
other vendor's hardware ;-)).  What I am interested in is that HP-UX provide
through NLS the same ability to switch character sets, convert, collate,
shift and compare strings in latin1 that it does for roman8.  I am a reasonable
man.

>
>Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 592-4664
>	"wake now!  Discover that you are the song that the morning brings..."

    "The heart has its reasons and seasons..."

PS. Is there a acronym clearing house at HP?  Does NLS mean Native License
Support? Network Language Server?, or what?


Fletcher E. Kittredge  fkittred@bbn.com