Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!bu.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!maxim!prc From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) Newsgroups: comp.std.misc Subject: Re: Int'l Character set Message-ID: <1660@hulda.erbe.se> Date: 13 Jun 90 05:53:56 GMT References: <150@rossignol.Princeton.EDU> <71@lysator.liu.se> Organization: ERBE DATA AB, Jarfalla, Sweden Lines: 17 In article <71@lysator.liu.se>, aronsson@lysator.liu.se (Lars Aronsson) writes: > Now, if we are lucky, all these letters are in ISO 8859-1 thru -9 (are > there nine?). But it seems we are stuck with this switching between > character sets that we know so well from the 7-bit era. Does the ISO > 8859 have codes that tell the equipment to set the right version or > will we still do this by hand? Or should I learn postscript? The ISO 2022 standard deals with character set switching within a character stream. -- Robert Claeson |Reasonable mailers: rclaeson@erbe.se ERBE DATA AB | Dumb mailers: rclaeson%erbe.se@sunet.se | Perverse mailers: rclaeson%erbe.se@encore.com These opinions reflect my personal views and not those of my employer (ask him).