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Article #1188Re: TeXhax Digest V89 #101
From: Tor Lillqvist
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1989 18:15
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1989 18:15
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In article <2663@munnari.oz.au> ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes: OS/2 National Language Support already has a set of "country codes" assigned. Now countries aren't languages -- Switzerland is one country with four languages, English is one language with many countries -- 044 = the United Kingdom 046 = Sweden 358 = Finland perhaps you will see where OS/2 gets its numbers... (Telephone country code numbers.) The problem with using these numbers is that Knuth chose to use one-byte language numbers, 0..255. And, as you say, there are many countries with multiple languages.-- Tor Lillqvist, VTT/ATK
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!tut!santra!hemuli.atk.vtt.fi!tml From: tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V89 #101 Message-ID: <4296@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi> Date: 12 Nov 89 18:15:14 GMT References: <807@shelby.Stanford.EDU> <2663@munnari.oz.au> Reply-To: tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland Lines: 15