Euro on old computers - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Feb 1999

On Feb 3, 11:43, Philip.Belben(a)PowerTech.co.uk wrote:

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  ISO Latin on a classic computer?  Pull the other one!

Well, an Archimedes is certainly a classic computer (born 1987), and it's
native character set is ISO Latin 1.  SunOS supported it then, too, IIRC.

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  ISTR that the IBM PC had it at decimal 156.  I have
seen it replace $, #, \
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  (Commodore VIC) and ` 
Most common is to replace #, but ` is not so rare.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York