Asmus Freytag (t) wrote: > Nobody wanted to follow the IBM code page 437 (then still the most > widely used single byte vendor standard).
Although to this day, the UN/LOCODE manual [1] still refers to 437 as "the standard United States character set" and claims that it "conforms to these ISO standards" (8859-1:1987 and 10646-1:1993). [1] http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/cefact/locode/2015-1_UNLOCODE_SecretariatNotes.pdf > Also, the overloading of 0x80-0xFF by Windows did not happen all at > once, earlier versions had left much of that space open, And it's still not completely filled, in any of the 125x code pages except for the quirky 1256. -- Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 🇺🇸