Re: ISO 10646 the final character set?

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From: John H. Jenkins
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 15:28

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In article <1992Aug14.051609.8673@jyu.fi>, sakkinen@jyu.fi (Markku
Sakkinen) wrote:
> 
> I don't think that the stupid idiosyncrasies of one particular
> programming language should be taken into account when a long-time
> universal character code is defined.
> 

Hearty agreement here.  The problem came from the fact that a lot of
organizations with a lot of clout were fighting 10646 tooth and nail
because of its perceived incompatibility with C.  The name-change
proposal is an indication of how desperate people were getting in trying
to combat this misperception. 

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John H. Jenkins
John_Jenkins@taligent.com

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