ISO/IEC 646, ISO/IEC 646 - History, ISO/IEC 646 - National variants, ISO/IEC 646 - Variants of ASCII that are not ISO 646, ASCII, Extended ASCII, EBCDIC, ISO 8859, ISO 10646, Unicode
ARTICLES RELATED TO ISO/IEC 646 - National variants
Some national variants of ISO 646 are:
The specifics of the changes for some of these variants are given in this table:
Later, when 8 bit character sets gained more acceptance, ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-2, and ISO 8859-3 became the preferred method of coding most of these variants.
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ISO/IEC 646 and its predecessor ASCII, ANS X3.4, largely endorses existing practice regarding character encodings in the telecommunications industry's network.
During the 1960s, there was debate regarding whether character encoding standards (at either the national or international levels) for computers should follow 1) existing practice in the telecommunications industry (which was largely paper-tape based, but which was commonly transmitted on-line digitally over wires) or, conversely, 2) existing practice in the punched-card portio ...
