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In article <10597@ucbvax.ARPA> kupfer@ucbvax.UUCP (Mike Kupfer) writes:
>I think that 8 bits is still not enough if you want to include oriental
>or other non-Roman character sets.  So using only 8 bits is reasonable
>if you assume that a typical UNIX system will not be able to display
>these characters...

Along these lines, readers of this newsgroup may be interested in the
ff. article:
	Anderson, Lloyd B. 1984. "Multilingual Text Processing in a Two-
	Byte Code."  10th. Int'l. Conf. on Computational Linguistics,
	pg. 1-4.
Part of the abstract:
	...standards committees are now discussing a two-byte code for
	multilingual information processing... 65,536 separate character
	and control codes, enough to make permanent code assignments for
	all national alphabets of the world, and also to include
	Chinese/ Japanese characters...  It is possible to arrange
	alphabet codes to provide transliteration equivalence...
He discusses the problems of diacritics, digraphs, alphabetization, etc.
The committee referred to is apparently the "ANSI X3L2" committee (at
least it's the only committee I can find reference to in the text).
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Mike Maxwell
Boeing Artificial Intelligence Center
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