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Article #2726Re: Character sets (was Re: wchar_t values)
From: harkcom
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 00:29
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 00:29
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In article <1108@sranha.sra.co.jp> erik@srava.sra.co.jp (Erik M. van der Poel) writes: =}It is safe to say that 0208 has had a following for quite a few years. Amongst the standards comittee it seems to have had a decade+ of following, but how many programmers actually use JIS in programming. The capability of handling it exists in many packages, but I think it's rarely used as an internal encoding (I think SJIS is used the most, but I'm not an expert). I think Mr. Diamond's point is valid even in reference to JIS X 0208. The ASCII characters are not a part of the standard and are handled as ASCII... Al
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!dclsic!sjc!leia!harkcom From: harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Character sets (was Re: wchar_t values) Message-ID: <HARKCOM.91Apr11092908@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp> Date: 11 Apr 91 00:29:08 GMT References: <15651@smoke.brl.mil> <keld.670719584@dkuugin> <1991Apr4.063141.29504@tkou02.enet.dec.com> <1108@sranha.sra.co.jp> Sender: news@leia.pa.yokogawa.co.jp Organization: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan Lines: 16 In-reply-to: erik@srava.sra.co.jp's message of 10 Apr 91 08:07:35 GMT