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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Re: Character sets: ISO 6937 vs ISO 8859
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.195805.10704@erbe.se>
Date: 7 Nov 90 19:58:05 GMT
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In a recent article K.P.Donnelly@edinburgh.ac.uk writes:

>ISO 8859-1 is a development of the DEC multinational character set.

Actually, the way I got this explained for me was that when DEC needed
an 8 bit character set, they took an early draft of ISO 8859/1. Later
drafts of ISO 8859/1 changed, and thus there are now about 10 characters
in the right half that's different between DEC Multinational and ISO
8859/1.

The DEC VT200 series has DEC Multinational as the only 8 bit character
set. The VT300 and VT400 series adds the true ISO 8859/1 character
set.

Anyone who knows the *true* story behind this?

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