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In article <Bu9Lv8.6pL@ireq.hydro.qc.ca> beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard) writes:
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>There is a lot of standards.  EBCDIC is available on many FTP site
>if you transfer text files using BINARY more.  ASCII is standard if
>under 0x80 and not over.  IBM-ASCII is available on DOS machines.
>ANSI-ASCII is available in DOS Windows (and it does not match IBM-ASCII)
>and in many UNIX systems.  MAC-ASCII is also different (Macintosh).
>Names (i.e. IBM-ASCII) are not the official ones (if they exist).

A recent number of PC Magazine talks about Unicode, a 16-bit scheme that
intends to cover all characters from a great many languages.  ECMA
Latin-1 and ASCII would be saubsets of this.

And an ISO standard for 32-bit character codes is in the works, good for
about four thousand million characters (if my mental arithmetic is
right).  The Unicode would be a subset of that standard, though the
article suggested that the ISO standard was a long way off because of
politicking on the committee.
-- 
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems                      brown@Ncoast.ORG

"Never try to teach a pig to sing.  You'll only waste your time and annoy the
pig." --Samuel Johnson (Thanks, Steve Martindill, for identifying the source.)