Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!oliveb!sun!noddy!glennw 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 References: <3801@zodiac.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 19 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. Glenn Wright. {..}glennw@sun or {..sun}!glennw ===================== Sun Microsystems, 2550 Garcia Avenue, Mountain View California 94043. Tel (1) 415 691 6848" Glenn Wright ============ Sun Microsystems Inc, Mountain View, California, USA. Tel: (415) 960 1300