[Info-vax] Micro Focus to be acquired by Open Text

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/2/2022 9:05 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-09-01, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>> Just read up a little.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Replacement_Character_Set

> Professionally, I've grown up with 8-bit character sets and then, later,
> UTF-8, so seeing this earlier standard looks really weird and alien to me.

> The idea that the same 7-bit character position can mean different
> things in adjacent countries (such as Norway and Sweden) is indeed a
> very alien idea to me and that would mean a company operating in both
> countries would have some serious data interchange issues.

ISO-8859 has the same basic issue. Multiple meanings of same
code - not per country like for ISO-646 but per region.

One country could be using ISO-8859-1 (western europe) and
the neighbor country could be using ISO-8859-2 (eastern europe).

Arne