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From: Dan@dna.lth.se (Dan Oscarsson)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: IA5 International Reference Version
Message-ID: <1991Mar31.092157.20297@lth.se>
Date: 31 Mar 91 09:21:57 GMT
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In article <PHILIP.91Mar5120556@beeblebrox.dle.dg.com> philip@beeblebrox.dle.dg.com (Philip Gladstone) writes:
>I heard a rumour that the International Reference Version of
>International Alphabet number 5 was going to be changed to align with
>ISO 8859. Can anybody provide me with chapter and verse on this one?
>
It would be nice if IA5 was the same as ISO 8859-1.

What is in IA5 today? Which characters in IA5 makes it claim to be an
international alphabet?
What standard organization has defined IA5? Not ISO I assume.

    Dan


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Dan Oscarsson                              Department of Computer Science
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