Article View: comp.std.c
Article #5996Re: Character Sets
From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Wed, 03 May 1989 10:39
Date: Wed, 03 May 1989 10:39
14 lines
1146 bytes
1146 bytes
In article <373@cybaswan.UUCP> iiit-sh@cybaswan.UUCP (Steve Hosgood) writes: >OK, well it's *far* too late for such ideas to be submitted to X3J11 now, ... "It was always too late for that!" - Walt Kelly >did anyone mention it in the early days, *before* it was too late? You appear to have the C language standardization committee confused with character code set standardization committees. In fact there have been numerous attempts to deal with this problem, and numerous standards have resulted, including some ISO-sanctioned ones. They don't quite follow the Xerox approach you cited, but there are some recognizable similarities, particularly in some of the Japanese work.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<10194@smoke.BRL.MIL>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!adm!smoke!gwynReferences:
<4623@freja.diku.dk> <12.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.UUCP> <2469@ogccse.ogc.edu> <373@cybaswan.UUCP>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Character Sets Message-ID: <10194@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 3 May 89 10:39:58 GMT References: <4623@freja.diku.dk> <12.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.UUCP> <2469@ogccse.ogc.edu> <373@cybaswan.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 14