Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!corton!laas!ralph From: ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: International Character sets (was Re: man w/ pipe) Message-ID: Date: 17 Jun 91 12:57:50 GMT References: <1991Jun10.075302.2611@ira.uka.de> <15480016@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> Sender: news@laas.laas.fr Organization: LAAS-CNRS France Lines: 16 In-reply-to: ritchie@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com's message of 15 Jun 91 07:21:40 GMT In article <15480016@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> ritchie@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (David Ritchie) writes: | >In article <3188@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk>, neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) writes: | >Darnded right! Atari really screwed up. Why didn't they use the IBM character | | The real question is why IBM doesn't have Bob in its character set. Well, actually why doesn't *everyone* use ISO-Latin-1 ? -- Ralph P. Sobek Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own. ralph@laas.fr Addresses are ordered by importance. ralph@laas.uucp, or ...!uunet!laas!ralph If all else fails, try: sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU =============================================================================== Proud owner of a Mega 4 ST. Wishing it was a Mega STe! :-|