> On May 25, 2016, at 3:47 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > > Christopher Reimer <christopher_rei...@icloud.com>: > >> Back in the early 1980's, I grew up on 8-bit processors and latin-1 was >> all we had for ASCII. > > You really were very advanced. According to <URL: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1#History>, ISO 8859-1 was > standardized in 1985. "Eight-bit-cleanness" became a thing in the early > 1990's.
Apparently, I wasn't. According to the Internet, which can't be wrong, many of the 8-bit computers in the early 1980's were based on 1960's ASCII with some non-standard characters tossed in. Latin-1 probably came during my DOS days in the 1990's. As for ISO 8859-1, the standard was approved in 1985 but it was based on the character set for the first ANSI standard terminal, DEC VT-2200, that came out in 1983. Still early 1980's. ;) Thank you, Chris R. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
