Computer oriented information and trivia, for the anally retentive (like me!).
ASCII - X3.4-1963 — People talk about "ASCII" all the time, let's see how wrong they are!
USASCII - X3.4-1967 — This is "USASCII", not "ASCII". Also known as ISO 646-US-1972.
ISO 646-US-1972 — X3.4-1967 turned into an international standard for the United States ... mostly intact.
ISO 646-IRV-1972 — X3.4-1967 turned into an international standard ... mostly intact.
ISO 646-IRV-1991 — The "forces that be" managed to co-opt ISO 646-IRV-1972 by displacing it in its entirety with ISO 646-US-1972.
ISO 8859-1 — international standard "Latin1" using an 8-bit encoding.
MacRoman — Apple's de facto standard on the Macintosh, extension of ISO 646-US-1972, with 8-bit encoding.
Win1252 — Microsoft's de facto standard on Windows, extension of ISO 8859-1 "Latin1".
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