PMP> How "wide" open is Alternative 4? Only 25 out of 211 char

PMP> How "wide" open is Alternative 4? Only 25 out of 211 char

Tom Hastings hastings at cp10.es.xerox.com
Fri Jul 25 15:35:14 EDT 1997


I looked at the 211 coded character sets that are currently registered
with IANA and only about 25 of them meet the Printer MIB alternative 4
that US-ASCII are in code positions 32 to 126.  They are:


US-ASCII itself
the 11 ISO 8858-n standards (6 Latin standards, plus Latin-Greek, 
Latin-Cyrillic, Latin-Hebrew, and Latin-Arabic).
5 Microsoft extensions to 5 Latin sets for Windows
CSA_Z243.4-1985-gr  (A Canadian Latin-Greek)
IEC P27-1 (which I didn't recognize what it was)
JIS C6226-1978 (old JIS Kanji Standard)
JIS C6226-1983 (Alias: JIS_X0208-1983 - newer JIS Kanji Standard)
Shift JIS (A Microsoft US-ASCII, plus Katakana, plus Kanji multi-byte set)
GB 2312-80 (PCL Symbol Set Id: 18C) (PRC Chinese Kanji)
UTF-8 


I'm not sure about the Koren national standard (KS_C_5601-1987), 
whether it can be or is used with US-ASCII in 32 to 126.


Most of them are ones designed for particular host platforms that 
applications run under.


Tom



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