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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1)
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.130432.26325@erbe.se>
Date: 1 Mar 91 13:04:32 GMT
References: <8775@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: ERBE DATA AB, Jakobsberg, Sweden
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In article <8775@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) writes:

>Does the ISO 8859 standard designate any function or behavior
>for control codes between hex 80 and 9F?  Are they supposed to be
>just like the control codes between hex 00 and 1F, except with
>the 8th bit turned on?  My 8859 sample pages just show gray boxes
>in all these positions, and the Unicode standard just has CTRL
>in boxes 80-9F (though it has specific names in 00-1F).

Even if ISO 8859-1 doesn't, there's probably some other standard that
does. For example, the control codes in the 80-9F range includes functions
such as "New Line" (NEL), "Down" (IND), "Up" (RI), "Device control string"
(DCS) and "Control sequence introducer" (CSI).

-- 
Robert Claeson

Disclaimer: I represent myself and not my employer.