Actually you could have made this clearer if you simply referred to ASCII
(with 7 bit encoding) - it is a standard published by ANSI after all.
ISO-8859-1 includes ASCII as a subset, and thus any system which uses
ISO-8859-1 will properly display a document containing only ASCII text.
Eric Hildum
> From: Renfield Kuroda <Renfield.Kuroda@msdw.com>
> Organization: Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.
> Reply-To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:43:08 +0900
> To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: iso-8859-1
>
> Sorry if I wasn't clear. "The basic ascii English character set" means the low
> ascii characters, which all have a one-to-one mapping in shift-jis (minus two
> characters, the backslash is a yen symbol, and the tilde is a high-bar) --
> anyway safest thing to do is set your editor to shift-jis even if you're only
> creating English pages!
>
> r e n
>
>
> Jöran Roslund (EMW) wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> ISO-8859-1 is not identical to the basic ASCII English character set!
>> The English characters (US-ASCII) are a subset of ISO-8859-1, which
>> also contains characters for other western European languages. As far
>> as I know the special German and Scandinavian characters are not included in
>> the basic JIS standard (JIS 0208) even if Greek and Cyrillic
>> alphabets are, and hence not in shift-JIS. In the supplementary
>> set, JIS 0212, there are characters called "21 diacritics and symbols"
>> in row 2, that I suppose are likely to include some commonly
>> used northern European characters, but shift-JIS does not support
>> JIS 0212.
>
> [excessive quoting removed]
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> ascii: r e n f i e l d
> octal: \162 \145 \156 \146 \151 \145 \154 \144
> hex: \x72 \x65 \x6e \x66 \x69 \x65 \x6c \x64
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