Subject: Re: Iso-8859-1 ...???

From: "Alan J. Flavell" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:59:53 GMT

On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Paul O Bartlett wrote:

> ISO-8859-1, I believe, is the standard designation, not ISO-Latin-1,
> even though the character set is commonly referred to as Latin-1.

That's also my interpretation.  The term Latin-1 designates a repertoire
of characters, without particular reference to their assignment to a
character code.  One could refer to DOS CP850, and EBCDIC CECP1047, as
Latin-1 codes, but they certainly aren't ISO-8859-1 !!  ISO-8859-1 is
the specific ISO code that is defined for the Latin-1 character
repertoire.