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From: glennw%noddy@Sun.COM (Glenn P. Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: ISO 8859
Message-ID: <52702@sun.uucp>
Date: 10 May 88 19:22:39 GMT
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Summary: IS 8859

In article <3801@zodiac.UUCP>, rlee@deimos.ads.com (Richard Lee) writes:
> Can someone tell me exactly what is defined by ISO standard 8859?
> Thanks.

This is the ISO standard for single byte 8-bit encodement of graphical
character shapes. 
There are 6 (currently) subsets to this standard, the most popular
being IS-8859/1 which defines most characters required to support W.European
languages. One key feature of 8859 is that it includes 7-bit US ASCII 
representation in the bottom half of each and every subset of the standard. 

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