On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 11:59:14AM +0200, Lars Marius Garshol wrote: > > This list has previously told me that the characters 0x80 - 0x9F in > ISO 8859-1 are a particular set of control characters from ISO 6429. > I also see that the ISO 8859-1 mapping published on unicode.org maps > these characters into the Unicode characters with the same code > points. > > I now see that ISO 8859-1 actually says > > "The shaded positions [0x00-0x1f og 0x7f-0x9f] correspond to > bit combinations that do not represent graphic characters. > Their use is outside the scope of ISO 8859; it is specifies > in other International Standards, for example ISO 646 or > ISO 6429." > > and I find other sources which say that ISO 8859 does not define any > control characters at all, and that users of it must themselves choose > a set of characters to use in this range. > > I find this a little confusing and would like to know whether there > really is a fixed, normative interpretation of this character range.
What people usually use is ISO 6429, this is eg what is used in IETF charset definitions for the iso-8859 series. Kind regards keld
