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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Composing characters
Message-ID: <4289@enea.se>
Date: 31 Jan 89 22:52:44 GMT
Organization: ENEA DATA AB, Sweden
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Sandra Martin (sandi@apollo.COM) writes:
>I can provide the Latin-1 compose sequences if anyone wants them.
>We use DEC's defacto standard for these sequences.

I didn't DEC had a de facto standard for Latin-1. I didn't
even knew they were supporting Latin-1. In the VMS environment
at least all they have is DEC Multinational Character Set,
which in many parts is the same as Latin-1, but with some 
differences. DEC's set is not full, some code are left undefined.
And some code have different meaning. For instance DEC has the
OE ligature where Latin-1 has the multiplication sign. The
difference are due to that DEC fixed their set before Latin-1
was settled, so they based their set on a draft.

As for the compose codes I'm not really fond all of of them. 
I very often type Compose-3-3 instead of Compose-a-a to get 
an at sign, since the "3" has this sign on it. But in 8-bit 
mode I get a section sign instead. And I wish Compose-8-8 had been 
allowed as an alternative for Compose-(-( to get a left 
bracket. (And same for right bracket (shift 9) and back slash
(shift 7)) And how to get braces and a vertical bar I still
haven't found out....
-- 
Erland Sommarskog
ENEA Data, Stockholm              This signature is not to be quoted.
sommar@enea.se