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Re: ASCII for national characters

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From: kyongsok kim
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1989 21:38
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In article <9300002@hpfcdc.HP.COM> donn@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Donn Terry) writes:
:ISO2022: Lays on top of 646 or 8859 (or others) and defines language shifts.
:	Blows away any presumption that length of string in characters ==
:	length in bytes == space used in displaying text.

Could you please elaborate "on top of" and "language shifts" (possibly
using examples)?

Thanks in advance.

Kyongsok Kim
Dept. of Comp. Sci., North Dakota State University

e-mail: nukim@plains.nodak.edu; nukim@ndsuvax.bitnet; uunet!ndsuvax!nukim
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Subject: Re: ASCII for national characters
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Date: 23 Nov 89 21:38:42 GMT
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