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From: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: International Character Sets
Message-ID: <3112@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 6 May 91 13:35:16 GMT
References: <1991May1.131212.8983@cbnewsl.att.com> <1991May3.063018.10081@ugle.unit.no>
Reply-To: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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In article <1991May3.063018.10081@ugle.unit.no> rmich@Lise.Unit.NO (Rolf Michelsen) writes:
>In article <1991May1.131212.8983@cbnewsl.att.com>, jssk@cbnewsl.att.com (jeffrey.s.skelton) writes:
>|> 
>|> Could somebody please give me pointers to standards on international
>|> character sets?
>|> 
>|> Thanks in advance...
>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.



AND:     PLEASE DON'T *MASK* THE 8TH BIT.

(if you do, then you will leave us poor icelanders out in the cold.  Then there
are other nations out there, besides us, that *NEED* the 8th bit.)



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