Re: Characters 0x80 - 0x9F in ISO 8859-1

From: Keld Jørn Simonsen (keld@dkuug.dk)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2002 - 16:33:40 EDT


On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 03:54:00PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 03:43:30PM +0200, Keld J?rn Simonsen wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:03:05AM -0400, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
> > > On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> > >
> > > > What people usually use is ISO 6429, this is eg what is used in
> > > > IETF charset definitions for the iso-8859 series.
> > >
> > > 6249 isn't the character-set definition - it's the control-sequences.
> > > 8859 corresponds to character-set definitions.
> > >
> > > (I assume that's what you meant to say, but did not).
> >
> > 6429 defines both control sequences and control characters.
>
> only incidentally - the focus of the document (the other 98% by page count)
> is devoted to control sequences.

Agreeg, but we are looking for the source for control characters, and
then 6429 is the one altho it is not the meat of that standard.

> my point: a more accurate answer to his question would have been to point out
> 2022.

Which only specifies very few control characters?
Nah, 6429 is the answer, if these codes are used at all, and
10646 also refers 6429.

Kind regards
keld



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