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From: hrs@homxb.UUCP (H.SILBIGER)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: A full solution
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Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 12:05:27 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  1 12:05:27 1987
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Summary: ISO 6937

> ISO 6937, like ISO 8859, uses 8-bit codes to provide an additional 96
> characters.  About 30 of these are special characters not formable from
> diacritics (e.g., Icelandic thorn, or undotted i).  There is a full set of
> diacritics, which precede the letter they modify.  You can think of them as
> non-spacing characters (so that the following letter prints on top of the
> diacritic).  A better way to think of them however is as "alert" codes,
> specifying that it and the following code form a 16-bit specification for a
> character.  The actual dot pattern may be formed by superposition, or it may
> be stored in a separate "rendering" set (to make a better-looking character
> than could be produced by superimposing a letter and a separate diacritic).
> The rest of the 96 extra characters are punctuation (such as inverted
> exclamation and question for Spanish), some math symbols, etc.  In fact, the
> first 32 characters of ISO 8859 are nearly identical to the first 32 8-bit
> characters of ISO 6937.
> 
ISO 6937 is emerging as the standard code set for communication.  ISO and CCITT
standards on Document Communication all specify this set.  The CCITT
equivalent is Recommendation T.61.

Herman Sibiger ...!ihnp4!homxb!hrs