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Article #450Re: 8-bit news
From: Andrew Hume
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 05:08
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 05:08
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In article <1glkdeINNqfr@tik.vtt.fi>, Markku.Savela@tel.vtt.fi (Markku Savela) writes: > In article <89RsVB3w165w@blues.kk.sub.org> kosta@blues.kk.sub.org (Kosta Kostis) writes: > > 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. even with a half-smiley, this is just plain bonkers. and juts plain untrue. i have seen a draft of a standard where a character set was defined by a table of 10646 values -- no one has or will apply for a character set escape sequence name. the bottom line is that 2022 was a barely manageable system that was so baroque that no one implemented save those who had to (mainly europeans). in the context of 7-bit transmission, it was a plausible technique. nowadays, it is simply bogus. let it die a natural death.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!att!allegra!alice!andrew From: andrew@alice.att.com (Andrew Hume) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,news.admin.misc Subject: Re: 8-bit news Summary: not really Message-ID: <24425@alice.att.com> Date: 17 Dec 92 05:08:44 GMT Article-I.D.: alice.24425 References: <Bz9Bw3.2I6@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <89RsVB3w165w@blues.kk.sub.org> <1glkdeINNqfr@tik.vtt.fi> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ Lines: 19