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From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: Re: Questions about LATIN-1 (8859-1)
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.200413.7216@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Organization: Northwestern University
References: <1991Apr16.130422.16607@dde.dk> <EF.91Apr18144752@fidel.tools.uucp> <ENAG.91Apr22014328@maud.ifi.uio.no>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 20:04:13 GMT
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In article <ENAG.91Apr22014328@maud.ifi.uio.no> enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) writes:
>According to what I heard from NSF, the Norwegian ISO member body,
>only Sweden and Germany insisted on the "currency symbol" at the time
>of ISO 646, and most other countries didn't care enough to counter
>their "need".  This stupidity has been corrected in ISO 8859-1, and a
>correction is finding its way back to ISO 646.

And, oh boy, did we Swedish computer geeks have to pay for it... More
trouble than that caused I can't imagine... besides, Sweden doesn't use the
"sol" symbol for *anything*, so of what use is it?

I would much rather have seen the section sign (IBM Extended ASCII 0x15) in
the position of the $ or # sign (# and @ are quite worthless outside
America, really...)

                 - - -  Peter
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