From keld@dkuug.dk Sat Nov 17 18:31:48 1990 Received: by dkuug.dk (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA24617; Sat, 17 Nov 90 18:31:48 +0100 Date: Sat, 17 Nov 90 18:31:48 +0100 From: Keld J|rn Simonsen Message-Id: <9011171731.AA24617@dkuug.dk> To: donn@hpfcrn.fc.hp.com, erik@sra.co.jp Subject: Re: Paper, again Cc: wg15rin@dkuug.dk X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 > What's ISO 6937? Some info on ISO 6937: This is a character set much like ISO 8859-1 intended for Latin usage. At least the ISO 6937-2; there are other parts for Greek and Cyrillic, as far as I know. (Have not seen them tho!). 6937-2 is very similar to T.61, a character set specified by CCITT and also similar to Videotex, used much in French and British popular telecommunication systems like Minitel. T.61 is the specified character set for X.400 and other OSI services. 6937-2 has some special characters called the non-spacing accents which together with a letter makes up a character, but does not mean something in themselves. Thus you sometimes need two octets to specify a character, sometimes just one octet. All in all you can specify 333 graphical characters with the 6937-2 character set in this way. I have heard that because of the widespread use of Minitel and Videotex equipment, 6937-2 based POSIX systems are very interesting to the French and the British industry. Keld