Re: Int'l Character set (Was: Re: filen

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1 total messages Started by kyongsok kim Fri, 29 Jun 1990 16:22

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Author: kyongsok kim
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 1990 16:22

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In article <106@lysator.liu.se> aronsson@lysator.liu.se (Lars Aronsson) writes:
:prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) writes:
:
:>As far as I know, ISO 2022 is mostly intended to be used for information
:>*transfer*, not *processing*. Your word processor should convert the
:>data read from the file into whatever internal format is appropriate
:>for the operations you want to perform on it.
:
:You are absolutely right. Transfer is the INTENT. Every new standard
:has an quite limited scoop intended and as you stick to it everything
:is fine.

I had the same question and read ISO documents very carefully several
times only to fail to find any clue.
I wonder if such an intent has been explicitly mentioned in the ISO
document?  Or is it just a guess?

Thanks.

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