Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!genat!maccs!gordan From: gordan@maccs.UUCP (Gordan Palameta) Newsgroups: can.francais,can.general Subject: ISO Latin 1 (was Re: Accents et objectifs) Message-ID: <700@maccs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 11:52:06 EDT Article-I.D.: maccs.700 Posted: Fri Aug 7 11:52:06 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Aug-87 18:38:22 EDT References: <424@pembina.UUCP> <228@Mannix.iros1.UUCP> <232@Mannix.iros1.UUCP> <1202@cognos.UUCP> <5189@utcsri.UUCP> Reply-To: gordan@maccs.UUCP (Gordan Palameta) Distribution: can Organization: DCSS, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Lines: 30 Keywords: Description of ISO Latin 1 found in BYTE Xref: mnetor can.francais:43 can.general:501 In article <5189@utcsri.UUCP> flaps@utcsri.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal) writes: > >The ISO Latin 1 standard is based on this idea... it claims to work for >Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, >Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish (as used in >specific countries.. I won't bother with the country list as it is longer). > > [list of various characters applicable to French] A description of a preliminary version of ISO Latin 1 was given in the August 1985 issue of BYTE magazine (on page 26, in the Letters section). I believe that the ISO Latin 1 standard as officially adopted in February 1987 corresponds exactly to this table, with the only difference being positions 13/07 and 15/07, previously unused, are assigned to the multiplication sign and division sign respectively. In a nutshell, the first 128 characters of ISO Latin 1 are US ASCII; the next 32 are non-printing "control"-type characters; the next 32 are various punctuation and special characters (cent sign, pound symbol, yen symbol, copyright symbol, upside down ! and ? for Spanish, etc), and the final 64 are Western European accented letters for the most part. Apparently, ISO Latin 1 is part of a family of 8-bit ASCII standards. Other standards include one for Eastern European characters, one for Arabic, etc. I think they all share US ASCII as the first 128 characters in the set. -- UUCP: ... !mnetor!lsuc!maccs!gordan BITNET: GP@TANDEM "Sumasshedshii vsekh stran, soyedinyaites'" Gordan Palameta