Thanks all. My current understand is such: Latin1 explicitly gives no semantics to several byte values (for example 0x81), but acknowleges that other standards will define their semantics. Unicode provides code-points with equally-undefined semantics so that these bytes can pass through without change. This allows a byte-level system using control codes in those ranges to interact with a unicode-aware system, without loss of information.
Does that summarize well? On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Doug Ewell <[email protected]> wrote: > Buck Golemon wrote: > > latin1 explicitly doesn't define characters (or control codes) in >> those ranges, but unicode does. >> > > See Ken's comment about Chapter 16. Both ISO 8859-1 and Unicode defer the > *actual interpretation* of control characters to ISO 6429, which is what > you are looking for. > > > -- > Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA > http://www.ewellic.org | @DougEwell > >
