draft ANSI standard: European Characters

[Martin Minow]

Previously, ahe at k.cc.purdue.edu (Bill Wolfe) noted that ANSI was
soliciting comments regarding a proposed 8-bit character standard.
That standard, called ISO Latin 1, is now approved as
ISO 8859/1, ECMA-94, or ANSI X3.134.1.  It had been discussed
on net.internat last year.  In summary, the values from 0 to decimal
128 are identical to US-ASCII, while values from 129 to 255 contain
control characters, graphic characters (such as pound-sterling) and
the accented letters used in many European languages.  The standard
is similar to, but not identical with, the Dec "multinational"
alphabet as implemented on the VT200 series terminals.  Using this
standard, the alphabet used for C programs does not need "trigraph"
composition sequences.

Martin Minow
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