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From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: International Character sets (was Re: man w/ pipe)
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Date: 19 Jun 91 00:22:55 GMT
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>| >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 ?

I heard Atari was trying to capture the Arab market (so that's what all those
squiggles are!)

Warwick.
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