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From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
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Subject: Re: Q: what is "ISO8859" is it a standard like "ISO 9000" or...?
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Hi,

Howard Wertenteil wrote:
> URL = http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html
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> Q: what is "ISO8859" is it a standard like "ISO 9000" or...?
> 
I think so.

While ISO 9000 is related to quality, this one is realated to the coding 
of characters.

Erich