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From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Subject: Character sets (was: A.D.)
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Simon Hosie wrote:

> Jonathan Paterson wrote:
> > In the Windows 3 version of extended ASCII, the numbers for the same
> > characters are 252, 233 and 226.
> 
>   I'd rather you didn't call it "the Windows 3 version".  Call it ISO8859-1.

What he calls "the windows 3 version" is properly called "code page
1252",
and is a superset of ISO 8859-1.  The codes 80-9F, not assigned in
8859-1, are assigned to a variety of useful characters:

CP1252  Unicode #Name

0x80            #UNDEFINED
0x81            #UNDEFINED
0x82    0x201A  #SINGLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK
0x83    0x0192  #LATIN SMALL LETTER F WITH HOOK
0x84    0x201E  #DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK
0x85    0x2026  #HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS
0x86    0x2020  #DAGGER
0x87    0x2021  #DOUBLE DAGGER
0x88    0x02C6  #MODIFIER LETTER CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
0x89    0x2030  #PER MILLE SIGN
0x8A    0x0160  #LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
0x8B    0x2039  #SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
0x8C    0x0152  #LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE
0x8D            #UNDEFINED
0x8E            #UNDEFINED
0x8F            #UNDEFINED
0x90            #UNDEFINED
0x91    0x2018  #LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
0x92    0x2019  #RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
0x93    0x201C  #LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
0x94    0x201D  #RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
0x95    0x2022  #BULLET
0x96    0x2013  #EN DASH
0x97    0x2014  #EM DASH
0x98    0x02DC  #SMALL TILDE
0x99    0x2122  #TRADE MARK SIGN
0x9A    0x0161  #LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
0x9B    0x203A  #SINGLE RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
0x9C    0x0153  #LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
0x9D            #UNDEFINED
0x9E            #UNDEFINED
0x9F    0x0178  #LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS

-- 
John Cowan						cowan@ccil.org
			e'osai ko sarji la lojban
