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Re: Some comments on the 1.1 draft

• To: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>
• Subject: Re: Some comments on the 1.1 draft
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:48:49 -0500
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Rick Jelliffe wrote:


> No. 0x0085 is not AFAIK a character in ISO 8859-1 (it is one of the design principles
> of 8859-1 that it will not fail on systems that mask the 8th bit and look for control
> characters).


In one sense that is correct.  However, the character encoding scheme
labeled "ISO 8859-1" includes both the C0 and the C1 character sets.
Check the mapping tables at http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859 .

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