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ASCII extended by Latin Alphabets
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   There are many Latin charsets.  The following has been written by Tim
Lasko <lasko@video.dec.com>, a long while ago:

     ISO Latin-1, or more completely ISO Latin Alphabet No 1, is now an
     international standard as of February 1987 (IS 8859, Part 1).  For
     those American USEnet'rs that care, the 8-bit ASCII standard,
     which is essentially the same code, is going through the final
     administrative processes prior to publication.  ISO Latin-1 (IS
     8859/1) is actually one of an entire family of eight-bit one-byte
     character sets, all having ASCII on the left hand side, and with
     varying repertoires on the right hand side:

        * Latin Alphabet No 1 (caters to Western Europe - now approved).

        * Latin Alphabet No 2 (caters to Eastern Europe - now approved).

        * Latin Alphabet No 3 (caters to SE Europe + others - in draft
          ballot).

        * Latin Alphabet No 4 (caters to Northern Europe - in draft
          ballot).

        * Latin-Cyrillic alphabet (right half all Cyrillic - processing
          currently suspended pending USSR input).

        * Latin-Arabic alphabet (right half all Arabic - now approved).

        * Latin-Greek alphabet (right half Greek + symbols - in draft
          ballot).

        * Latin-Hebrew alphabet (right half Hebrew + symbols -
          proposed).

   The ISO Latin Alphabet 1 is available as a charset in `recode' under
the name `Latin-1'.  In fact, it's true name is `ISO_8859-1:1987' as
per RFC 1345, accepted aliases being `CP819', `IBM819', `ISO-8859-1',
`ISO_8859-1', `iso-ir-100', `l1' and `Latin-1'.  The shortest way of
specifying it in `recode' is `l1'.

   It is an eight-bit code which coincides with ASCII for the lower
half.  This documentation used to include Latin-1 tables.  They have
been removed since the `recode' program can now recreate these easily:

     recode -lf l1                   for commented ISO Latin-1
     recode -ld l1                   for concise decimal table
     recode -lo l1                   for concise octal table
     recode -lh l1                   for concise hexadecimal table