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Since 1982 the urgency of the need for an 8-bit single-byte coded character set was recognized in ECMA as well as in ANSI/X3L2 and numerous working papers were exchanged between the two groups. In February 1984 ECMA TC1 submitted to ISO/TC97/SC2 a proposal for such a coded character set. At its meeting of April 1984 SC decided to submit to TC97 a proposal for a new item of work for this topic. Technical discussions during and after this meeting led TC1 to adopt the coding scheme proposed by X3L2. Part 1 of Draft International Standard DTS 8859 is based on this joint ANSI/ECMA proposal....Adopted as an ECMA Standard by the General Assembly of Dec. 13–14, 1984.
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Twin Release 2 keeps the IBM extended character set of Version 1A, rather than Release 2.0's Lotus International Character Set, which... causes problems with commercial templates designed for Lotus 1-2-3, Release 1A.
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Release 1A's capability to use extended graphics characters to dress up a screen was an undocumented feature. These characters allowed you to draw boxes and add special symbols on the screen. With Release 2, Lotus has assigned different meanings to these characters, the Lotus International Character Set, LICS. Any these extended characters must be erased or replaced with regular keyboard characters before the character can appear acceptable on an Release 2 screen. Release 2.01 offers an install option to use extended characters rather than LICS characters.
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Unlike 1-2-3, Quattro uses the ASCII character set. By default, 1-2-3, Release 2.01, uses the Lotus International Character Set (LICS) — the same character set that Release 2.0 always uses...you can command Release 2.01 to use the ASCII character set, just as Quattro does....load the install program, and select Advanced Options...select TextDisplay...choose Universal Text Display — ASCII-No LICS...Now, when you load 1-2-3 using the modified driver set, the @CHAR function will produce upper-level ASCII characters...(NB. By "Upper-level ASCII", the authors actually meant the 8-bit OEM character set.)
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