Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!ucbvax!CCC.NERSC.GOV!guse
From: guse@CCC.NERSC.GOV
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ
Subject: ASN.1 REAL encodings
Message-ID: <900814163517.20217e36@CCC.NERSC.GOV>
Date: 14 Aug 90 23:35:17 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Distribution: inet
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 5

I am confused about the REAL encoding used in ISODE.  It appears that the BER 
specifies that the mantissa of the real (in binary) is encoded as an unsigned 
integer.  (10.5.5 -- ISO8825)  However, pg. 299 of The Open Book, and 
apparently the ISODE implementation encodes the mantissa as a twos-complement 
integer.  I am interested in clarification/explanation of this inconsistency.