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From: yfcw14@castle.ed.ac.uk (K P Donnelly)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: ASCII digraphs for ISO 8859-1 requested
Keywords: troff, dwb
Message-ID: <7726@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 9 Jan 91 13:00:11 GMT
References: <1991Jan7.223914.19056@cbnewsl.att.com>
Organization: Edinburgh University Computer Services
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npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) writes:

>To the point, are there any more proposals out there for how to
>represent 8 bit characters in a 7 bit subset?
>My goal is to have the troff convention be the same as the
>keyboard convention most familiar to people, if such a thing exists.

Surely by far the most common keyboard convention for ISO 8859-1 is that
on used VT320 terminals, in which for example you generate the 8 bit
character "half" type pressing "Compose-character" then "1" then "2".
Some other examples are:
                quarter              1 4
                a-acute              a '   or  ' a
                A-acute              A '   or  ' A
                pound sign           L -   or  - L  
                French quote marks   < <
                                     > >
                suberscript 2        2 ^
                degree sign          0 ^
                plus or minus        + -
Any user's manual for a VT320 or compatible gives full details.

   Kevin Donnelly