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From: rmich@Lise.Unit.NO (Rolf Michelsen)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: International Character Sets
Message-ID: <1991May3.063018.10081@ugle.unit.no>
Date: 3 May 91 06:30:18 GMT
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In article <1991May1.131212.8983@cbnewsl.att.com>, jssk@cbnewsl.att.com (jeffrey.s.skelton) writes:
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|> Could somebody please give me pointers to standards on international
|> character sets?
|> 
|> Thanks in advance...
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You could have a look at the ISO standard character sets. I think the 
standard is numbered ISO 8859/n where n says what kind of character set
you are looking for. n=1,2,3,4 gives you four (slightly) different Latin
alphabets while n=7 gives you the Greek alphabet.

Hope this helps.

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