Re: reserved for future standardization

From: Jonathan Rosenne ([email protected])
Date: Tue Dec 01 1998 - 17:30:42 EST

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I beg to strongly agree with Michael.

Jony

At 03:39 01/12/98 -0800, Michael Everson wrote:
>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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