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From: mitchell@mdivax1
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Subject: Re: Keyboard layout
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Date: 15 Jan 91 15:08:38 GMT
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In article <41684@nigel.ee.udel.edu> ECO8941@ecostat.aau.dk (Povl H. Pedersen) writes:
>
>I am using MacMINIX on a machine with a foreign (danish) keyboard, and I 
>have some problems with the 8 bit national/accented characters.
>
>Before trying to make support for these I would like to know if there is
>any standard for mapping special characters into the ASCII table.

I don't know the answer to this, but would hazard a guess that any
standard which does exist is set by a national standards committee
in Denmark.

If anybody knows of a central document detailing standards for mapping
of various national alphabets into 7/8 bit codes, I'd appreciate a pointer
to it.

-- 
mitchell@mdi.com (Bill Mitchell)