Re: Standard Character representation
Albert Cheng (acheng@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Mon, 21 Apr 1997 13:47:35 -0500
At 04:33 PM 4/18/97 -0700, Ian E. Stockdale wrote:
>> I need a reference about the character representation standard
>> quoted on 10.5.2, p241, line 18. I hunt around the net and
>> found a reference of ISO-8859-1. (Here is the URL of one of the
>> references: "http://www.mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk/html/iso_table.html").
>> Is this the correct one to use?
>
>You should go to the ISO home page (http://www.iso.ch), and follow
>the "catalogue" link. This eventually gets you to:
>
>=================================================================
>ISO 8859-1:1987
>Information processing -- 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character
>sets -- Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1
>
>Edition: 1 (monolingual)
>Number of pages: 7
>Price code: D
>Technical committee / subcommittee: JTC 1 / SC 2
>ICS: 35.040
>
>Descriptors: coded character sets, data codes, data processing, data
>transmission, information interchange, Latin characters
>=================================================================
>
[Thanks Ian, for the reference.]
Is it acceptable to use website address as reference? E.g.,
"The External representation for MPI_CHAR and MPI_CHARACTER should
be of ISO-8859:1987 (see "http://www.iso.ch")."
Actually, can I say that ISO is so well known that it is unnecesarily to
make a formal reference for it?