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From: npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: ASCII digraphs for ISO 8859-1 requested
Keywords: troff, dwb
Message-ID: <1991Jan7.223914.19056@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 7 Jan 91 22:39:14 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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I've received a proposal from Keizer, Simonsen and Akkerhuis
for 2 character representations for the additional 128 characters
in ISO 8859-1.  Dennis Ritchie had already implemented a competing
convention for Research UNIX for keyboard entry. For example,
for the open French quote, or left angle quote mark, position 10/11,
K/S/A suggest \(Fo, Ritchie suggests \(<<.
If you have such a key on your keyboard, this is not an issue; if
you don't, is there a common digraph in existence? Viz., does
everyone type "dead-key char1 char2" the same way, or is it
hopelessly local.
To the point, are there any more proposals out there for how to
represent 8 bit characters in a 7 bit subset?
mail to npn@mhuxo.att.com.
My goal is to have the troff convention be the same as the
keyboard convention most familiar to people, if such a thing exists.


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