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In article <Apr.19.10.41.28.1989.7554@paul.rutgers.edu>, halldors@paul.rutgers.edu (Magnus M Halldorsson) writes:
> The ISO 8859 character sets specify sets for specific languages. Now
> what if one wants to use a combination of those? Is there any standard
> for storing, representing, and switching between various (ISO)
> character sets? What if one wants to allow for Japanese or Chinese as
> well?
> 

The Chinese standard is reportedly going to reserve the characters
(decimal) 0 thru 255 for romanised characters.  I've forgotten what
the Japanese standard say, but it is possible that 128-255 are used
for either Hiragana or Katakana.

SS1 and SS2 are freqently used to shift character sets.  A good place 
to look for European usage is X/OPEN.  For Asian character sets, you'll
have to acquire the standards.