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Subject: Re: Accents et objectifs
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Date: Sun, 2-Aug-87 10:05:08 EDT
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In article <1202@cognos.UUCP>, roberts@cognos.uucp (Robert Stanley) writes:
> An earlier posting suggested that 144 character codes would be required to
> enable a full complement of accented letters to be encoded as single
> characters.  Unfortunately 144 into 128 doesn't go, and I have this strange
> feeling that 8-bit ASCII has already been grabbed by the graphics fraternity.
> Perhaps we should turn back to Big Blue and adopt EBCDIC as the universal (let
> us not be provincial in this matter) standard.

8 bit ascii has been around for a few years now.
I think it is defined by Ansi X3.64, which adds 32 control and 94 graphic
characters to the 128 existing ascii characters.

ISO Latin 1 is an extended ascii character set with about 60 accented
characters, suitable for most western languages. VT200 terminals
and many new laser printers have this character set.
I haven't seen much support for 8 bit ascii in software
other that DEC's software and the MKS' toolkit.