Editing ISO/IEC 8859-1 (section)

== History ==
ISO&nbsp;8859-1 was based on the [[Multinational Character Set]] (MCS) used by [[Digital Equipment Corporation]] (DEC) in the popular [[VT220]] terminal in 1983. It was developed within the [[Ecma International|European Computer Manufacturers Association]] (ECMA), and published in March 1985 as [[ECMA-94]],<ref name="ECMA_1985_ECMA94_R1" /> by which name it is still sometimes known. The second edition of ECMA-94 (June 1986)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma-094.pdf|title=Second edition of ECMA-94 (June 1986)}}</ref> also included [[ISO/IEC 8859-2|ISO&nbsp;8859-2]], [[ISO/IEC 8859-3|ISO&nbsp;8859-3]], and [[ISO/IEC 8859-4|ISO&nbsp;8859-4]] as part of the specification.

The original draft of ISO&nbsp;8859-1 placed French ''Œ'' and ''œ'' at code points 215 (0xD7) and 247 (0xF7), as in the MCS. However, the delegate from France, being neither a linguist nor a typographer, falsely stated that these are not independent French letters on their own, but mere [[Orthographic ligature|ligatures]] (like ''ﬁ'' or ''ﬂ''), supported by the delegate team from [[Bull Publishing Company]], who regularly did not print French with ''Œ/œ'' in their house style at the time. An anglophone delegate from Canada insisted on retaining ''Œ/œ'' but was rebuffed by the French delegate and the team from Bull. These code points were soon filled with × and ÷ under the suggestion of the German delegation. Support for French was further reduced when it was again falsely stated that the letter ''ÿ'' is "not French", resulting in the absence of the capital ''Ÿ''. In fact, the letter ''ÿ'' is found in a number of French proper names, and the capital letter has been used in dictionaries and encyclopedias.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=André|first=Jacques|title=ISO Latin-1, norme de codage des caractères européens? Trois caractères français en sont absents!|journal=Cahiers GUTenberg|issue=25|date=1996|pages=65–77|doi=10.5802/cg.205 |url=http://www.numdam.org/article/CG_1996___25_65_0.pdf|language=fr}}</ref> These characters were added to [[ISO/IEC 8859-15#1999|ISO/IEC&nbsp;8859-15:1999]]. [[BraSCII]] matches the original draft.

In 1985, [[Commodore International|Commodore]] adopted ECMA-94 for its new [[AmigaOS]] operating system.<ref name="Amiga-1251">{{Cite web |title=Registration of new charset [Amiga-1251] |date=2003-01-10 |author-first=Michael |author-last=Malyshev |url=https://www.iana.org/assignments/charset-reg/Amiga-1251 |publisher=ATO-RU (Amiga Translation Organization - Russian Department) |access-date=2016-12-05 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161205191644/https://www.iana.org/assignments/charset-reg/Amiga-1251 |archive-date=2016-12-05}}</ref> The Seikosha MP-1300AI impact dot-matrix printer, used with the Amiga&nbsp;1000, included this encoding.{{Citation needed|date=April 2012}}

In 1990, the first version of [[Unicode]] used the code points of ISO-8859-1 as the first 256 Unicode code points.

In 1992, the [[Internet Assigned Numbers Authority|IANA]] registered the character map '''ISO_8859-1:1987''', more commonly known by its preferred [[MIME]] name of '''ISO-8859-1''' (note the extra hyphen over ISO&nbsp;8859-1), a superset of ISO&nbsp;8859-1, for use on the [[Internet]]. This map assigns the [[C0 and C1 control codes]] to the unassigned code values thus provides for 256 characters via every possible 8-bit value.