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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Programming and international character sets.
Message-ID: <1988Nov2.175340.353@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <532@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 88 17:53:40 GMT

In article <532@krafla.rhi.hi.is> kjartan@rhi.hi.is (Kjartan R. Gudmundsson) writes:
>The problem is however that the extension is not standard.
>We have one possability in the IBM-PC character set, other one from HP called
>Roman-8, DEC gives us DEC-multinational character set and the Macintosh
>has yet another...

ISO Latin 1 will probably supersede all of these, pretty much solving that
problem.  (If you haven't heard of it, and want to know what it's like,
it's pretty similar to DEC's multinational set.)
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