Before I will send the following text to a number of public domain software authors, I'd like to ask you again for a final comment on these tables. Authors of software dealing with text received from international networks are strongly encouraged to implement this or similar methods as options in their software for the convenience of users all over the world.
Implementation is often trivial.
ISO 8859-1 contains graphic characters used in at least 44 countries. Pessimists expect that these old 7-bit terminals will be in use at least for the next ten years. This seems to be the most natural method, which often won't even be noticed by users that use these traditional replacements already today on their old hardware. There is no optimal solution possible for the problem of displaying text with ISO Latin 1 characters on old terminals apart from buying new hardware. Including the tables below in programs like mail user agents, news readers, gopher clients, file browsers, tty drivers etc. is often a trivial task.