Talk:ISO/IEC 646
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ISO 646 should be ISO/IEC 646; similarly for 8859 and 10646. Presumably page names can't include a slash; is there some convention for representing this? In any case, since it's a global change affecting links I'll leave it for someone with a robot to do...
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[edit] dates
Could someone add the dates when ISO 646 and ISO 8859 became popular?
[edit] Who won the race?
During the 1960s, there was debate regarding whether character encoding standards [...] for computers should follow 1) existing practice in the telecommunications industry [...] or, conversely, 2) existing practice in the punched-card portion of the computer industry [...].
Well, who was the winner? --Abdull 20:21, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
- EBCDIC is the descendent of punched-card codes, ASCII is a descendent of old Baudot-type codes, and pretty much everything else being used nowadays is a descendent of ASCII... AnonMoos 10:53, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] SSK
Who's SSK as mentioned in this article? --Abdull 20:21, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
- Presumably some Scandinavian standards body not linked from the Wikipedia SSK disambiguation page. AnonMoos 10:57, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Needs table
'nough said. Shinobu 17:58, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
- Done. — Loadmaster (talk) 06:12, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] 'IS' character set?
Does anyone know which character set 'IS' refers to in the table? --StuartBrady (Talk) 10:42, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
- Presumably something for Icelandic... AnonMoos 10:54, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Table incomplete
The table Characters for each ISO 646 compatible charset is incomplete. It only shows a few entries out of 128 possible. Is it that the missing entries are the same as ASCII? If so, that info is not in the article yet. Thanks. --Abdull (talk) 19:52, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
- I added the full 128 code table. — Loadmaster (talk) 06:12, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] rfc1345 observations
According to RFC1345 ISO646-KR differs from ISO646-US only in 0x5C position. 0x7E is '?. Same tilde symbol as ISO646-US
ISO646-CN, ISO646-GB and ISO646-SE have overline in 0x7E position and not tilde.
ISO646-US and ISO_646.irv:1991 are aliases.
ISO_646.irv:1983 has Cu in 0x24 position instead of $
In ISO646-HU 0x7E is U+02DD double acute accent and not tilde
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