Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!robobar!ronald From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: Questions about LATIN-1 (8859-1) Message-ID: <1991Apr30.075226.9135@robobar.co.uk> Date: 30 Apr 91 07:52:26 GMT References: <1991Apr17.170515.2058@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Apr27.053523.17867@timessqr.gc.cuny.edu> <1991Apr29.184000.26077@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND. Lines: 18 henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: > dlv@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu writes: > >These are _spacing_ diacritics and cannot be combined with letters in ISO 8859. > Uh, character code 010 is backspace, which makes such combination eminently > possible. "The use of control functions for the coded representation of composite characters is prohibited by ISO 8859" -- [section 0: Introduction, ISO 8859/1] "The use of control functions, such as BACKSPACE or CARRIAGE RETURN for the coded representation of composite characters is porhibited by ISO 8859" -- [section 7: Specification of the coded character set, ISO 8859/1] Besides, the control characters, e.g. backspace, are not covered by 8859. Aren't character set standards fun? :-/ -- Ronald Khoo +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H)