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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <63120837$0$703$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes: 

> 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).

True, but ISO-8859-15 covers most Latin-alphabet languages.