Re: DEC multilingual code page, ISO 8859-1, etc.

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Frank da Cruz scripsit:

> A standard character set is one that is in the ISO Register -- the IANA
> registry doesn't count. (I realize that Unicoders have problems with the
> ISO Register, but it's all there is.)

The ISO IR is just as full of junk as the IANA registry: many things in it
are standards only in the diseased brain of the proposer (not the registrar).

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