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In article <TAKAYAMA.89Dec20102525@vcomsa.vcom.sony.co.jp>
takayama@vcom.sony.co.jp (Yoshihisa Takayama) discovered that the
French national letters in the standard Apple Macintosh character set
do not have the same internal coding as those characters on an IBM-PC,
and asks which machine uses an International Standard.

Unfortunately, neither directly support the ISO Latin-1 alphabet which
is the closest we have to an internationally recognized character set
for French.  To move text between those computers, you will have to
apply some sort of translation algorithm.

Since character sets are user-definable on the Macintosh, you could --
with a fair amount of work -- define a keyboard mapping and display
font that implement the IBM PC character set on the Mac.  I suspect that
that would be more trouble than it's worth, however.

Perhaps the best solution would be to write "import-export" routines
for both systems and use ISO Latin-1 as a common exchange format.

Martin Minow
minow@thundr.enet.dec.com

Ps: there are two 7-bit (ISO 646) character sets for French: one for France
and one for Canada.  I would strongly recommend using ISO Latin-1 for
all new work, however.