Re: 8-bit news

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From: Markku Savela
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:58

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In article <89RsVB3w165w@blues.kk.sub.org> kosta@blues.kk.sub.org (Kosta Kostis) writes:

>I fully agree. As long as we don't have one ultimate character set,
>which ISO 10646 claims to be, as the network character set we need

Actually we already have one ultimate character encoding system, sort
of. And that is ISO 2022 + registered character sets. Implementing
that is about the same complexity as ISO 10646, it's just different
encoding for the same information.

1/2 :-)

--
Markku Savela (savela@tel.vtt.fi), Technical Research Centre of Finland
Telecommunications Laboratory, Otakaari 7 B, SF-02150 ESPOO, Finland

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From: Markku.Savela@tel.vtt.fi (Markku Savela)
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Subject: Re: 8-bit news
Date: 15 Dec 1992 21:58:06 GMT
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