Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!ames!amdahl!dgcad!dg-rtp!bigben!bigben!philip From: philip@beeblebrox.dle.dg.com (Philip Gladstone) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: IA5 International Reference Version Message-ID: Date: 2 Apr 91 18:30:53 GMT References: <1991Mar31.092157.20297@lth.se> Sender: usenet@dle.dg.com (Net News) Distribution: comp Organization: Data General, Development Lab Europe Lines: 27 In-Reply-To: Dan@dna.lth.se's message of 31 Mar 91 09:21:57 GMT >>>>> On 31 Mar 91 09:21:57 GMT, Dan@dna.lth.se (Dan Oscarsson) said: Dan> It would be nice if IA5 was the same as ISO 8859-1. Dan> What is in IA5 today? Which characters in IA5 makes it claim to be an Dan> international alphabet? Dan> What standard organization has defined IA5? Not ISO I assume. IA5 (it's full name is International Alphabet No. 5) is defined in CCITT Recommendation T.50. According to a note, it claims that this recommendation corresponds to International Standard ISO 646. The [recommendation|standard] is unsatisafactory in that it defines a whole collection of character sets which are all variants of each other. There is one distinguished version -- "the International Refernce Version (IRV)" which defines all the characters. As I understand the situation, there is a move afoot to change the 2/4 character from the crown symbol to the dollar sign. I hope this clears up any confusion. Philip -- Philip Gladstone Dev Lab Europe, Data General, Cambridge, UK Why don't I just go zootlewurdle? Does it matter? Even if it does matter, does it matter that it matters?