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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...

dates

Could someone add the dates when ISO 646 and ISO 8859 became popular?

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

SSK

Who's SSK as mentioned in this article? --Abdull 20:21, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Presumably some Scandinavian standards body not linked from the Wikipedia SSK disambiguation page. AnonMoos 10:57, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Needs table

'nough said. Shinobu 17:58, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done. — Loadmaster (talk) 06:12, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

'IS' character set?

Does anyone know which character set 'IS' refers to in the table? --StuartBrady (Talk) 10:42, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Presumably something for Icelandic... AnonMoos 10:54, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

I added the full 128 code table. — Loadmaster (talk) 06:12, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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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Tokul (talk) 12:26, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]