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From: gordan@maccs.McMaster.CA (gordan)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Programming and international character sets.
Keywords: 8 bit characters
Message-ID: <1561@maccs.McMaster.CA>
Date: 3 Nov 88 05:18:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: maccs.1561
References: <532@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <605@quintus.UUCP> <362@auspex.UUCP>
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In article <362@auspex.UUCP> guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
|>There is a Cyrillic version (I think it is 8859/2)
|
|No, 8859/2 is another Latin set; there are four Latin alphabets
|(8859/[1234], I think), and there seem to be at least drafts for Greek
|and Cyrillic.

8859/2 is the Eastern European character set
8859/5 is Cyrillic

Tim Lasko posted listings for both of these to comp.std.internat a
couple of months ago.  If anyone wants a copy, send me e-mail.

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                 Gordan Palameta
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