Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!hpa From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Re: Questions about LATIN-1 (8859-1) Message-ID: <1991Apr23.200413.7216@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Organization: Northwestern University References: <1991Apr16.130422.16607@dde.dk> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 20:04:13 GMT Lines: 21 In article enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) writes: >According to what I heard from NSF, the Norwegian ISO member body, >only Sweden and Germany insisted on the "currency symbol" at the time >of ISO 646, and most other countries didn't care enough to counter >their "need". This stupidity has been corrected in ISO 8859-1, and a >correction is finding its way back to ISO 646. And, oh boy, did we Swedish computer geeks have to pay for it... More trouble than that caused I can't imagine... besides, Sweden doesn't use the "sol" symbol for *anything*, so of what use is it? I would much rather have seen the section sign (IBM Extended ASCII 0x15) in the position of the $ or # sign (# and @ are quite worthless outside America, really...) - - - Peter -- IDENTITY: Anvin, H. Peter STATUS: Student INTERNET: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu FIDONET: 1:115/989.4 HAM RADIO: N9ITP, SM4TKN RBBSNET: 8:970/101.4 EDITOR OF: The Stillwaters BBS List TEACHING: Swedish