Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!lsuc!jimomura
From: jimomura@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Omura)
Subject: Re: International Character sets (was Re: man w/ pipe)
Organization: Consultant, Toronto
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 14:51:48 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.145148.3668@lsuc.on.ca>
References: <1991Jun10.075302.2611@ira.uka.de> <15480016@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> <RALPH.91Jun17145750@orion.laas.fr> <2007@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>

In article <2007@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au 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 ?
>
>I heard Atari was trying to capture the Arab market (so that's what all those
>squiggles are!)

     Well, actually, the North American version has Hebrew letters.
We don't have Arabic.


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