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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: Xerox Character Code Standard (was 7-bit ASCII vs. 8-bit ASCII)
Message-ID: <1491@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 23 Apr 89 10:40:50 GMT
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>However, ISO Latin 1 strings aren't necessarily in compressed Xerox format,
>because 255 is a printable character in ISO Latin, as I recall.

Yes, it is.  In ISO Latin #1, it's "y with a diaresis" (what language
uses that?).