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  • From: John Cowan <cowan AT mercury.ccil.org>
  • To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • Cc: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Obscure encodings
  • Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 14:12:05 -0500

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> It turns out there is one difference between TIS-620 and ISO-8859-11,
> though nothing that can't be worked around. 8859-11 defines 0xA0 as
> the non-breaking space. TIS-620 does not, leaving this code point
> undefined.

It's an invariant of all 8859-x standards that NBSP is at A0.

> Also interesting, 8859-11 is the only ISO set I've seen that does not
> define 80-9F as the C1 controls. It leaves them undefined, probably
> for compatibility with TIS-620.

A distinction without a difference. The actual 8859-1 standards
document (http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ISO-IR/100.pdf) doesn't
define them either.

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