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ISO Latin 1? (was Re: design by committee)

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From: David S. Masterson
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 1990 02:10
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>>>>> On 23 Nov 90 21:17:27 GMT, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) said:

Henry> The right answer to national character sets is ISO Latin 1 or
Henry> equivalent, not ridiculous contortions in language syntax that *every*
Henry> compiler *everywhere* then has to be able to parse.  Trigraphs were a
Henry> mistake.

Simple question (I think):

Does ISO Latin 1 address oriental languages like Kanji?  (Come to think of it,
does trigraphs?)
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