Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!pvab!robert
From: robert@pvab.UUCP (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: keyboards
Keywords: keyboard, DEC, ISO
Message-ID: <323@pvab.UUCP>
Date: 4 Oct 88 07:34:55 GMT
References: <3518@phri.UUCP> <2800001@modcomp> <349@laic.UUCP> <6722@nsc.nsc.com>
Organization: ERBE Data AB, Sweden
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In article <6722@nsc.nsc.com>, glennw@nsc.nsc.com (Glenn Weinberg) writes:

> One other point.  The VT200 was one of the first ASCII terminals (in the US
> anyway) to truly support 8-bit characters (i.e., not just 7-bit
> characters in an 8-bit field).  From an EMACS point of view in particular,
> this is a very attractive capability.  Of course, on the downside (there
> always seems to be a downside, unfortunately :-), the 8-bit set is not
> one of the standard ISO Latin sets, although it is close.

The VT3xx-terminals have the ISO 8859/Latin 1 character set as well as
DEC's own Multinational character set.
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