Ar 19:24 -0800 1998-11-30, scr�obh Kenneth Whistler:
>Yes, they're changing ISO 8859-7. It's in a *backwards* compatible
>way, but that is incompatibility of a sort. People had assumed that
>8859-x standards had fixed content forever, but nature and
>standards committees abhor a vacuum, so those holes are starting
>to get filled.
People assumed that "reserved for future standardization" meant exactly
that, I guess.
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