[Info-vax] Ctrl-Ecf

[Michael Moroney]

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:

>Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> 
>> Ah, OK. Maybe I thought of DEC-MCS that later was made into
>> some ISO standard (more or less)...

>DECMCS is for practical purposes identical with ISO-8859-1.
>But I think there are a couple of less used characters that
>are different. The committee had to changed something !  :-)

DEC MCS had several undefined positions which ISO-8859-1 defined.
In addition the upper/lower case "OE" ligature in MCS were replaced by
multiply/divide signs in ISO-8859-1, also Y with umlaut (or whatever
the proper name for the two dots is) was replaced with Y with acute
accent (and a lowercase only y umlaut was added to ISO-8859-1 in a
position undefined in DEC MCS)

They may have later redefined the "generic currency sign" as the Euro,
but I think that was a proposal that didn't make it.