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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/2/2022 2:59 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.

Strictly speaking ISO-8859-15 is still western Europe only.

It is basically the same as ISO-8859-1 with Euro sign
and a few other added.

The few other do include 4 eastern European letters, but it
is not a full replacement for ISO-8859-2.

Arne