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From: sakkinen@tukki.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Re^2: trigraphs
Message-ID: <894@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 14 Jun 89 07:20:49 GMT
References: <4623@freja.diku.dk> <12.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.UUCP> <2469@ogccse.ogc.edu> <12840@haddock.ima.isc.com> <324@texas.dk>
Reply-To: markku@jytko.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
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In article <324@texas.dk> storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
...
>
>So to summarise, the Danish proposal was not really a replacement for the
>trigraphs (although I cannot believe they will ever be used), it was
>a proposal to make portable alternatives to the ASCII specific characters
>which would be portable WITHOUT conversion.
...
>Kim F. Storm        storm@texas.dk        Tel +45 429 174 00
>Texas Instruments, Marielundvej 46E, DK-2730 Herlev, Denmark
>	  No news is good news, but nn is better!

For those who want more details:
There is a paper about this in the EUUG Newsletter Vol. 9 No. 2
(Summer 1989) that has just come out. It's written by Keld Simonsen
and Bjarne Stroustrup.

Markku Sakkinen
Department of Computer Science
University of Jyvaskyla (a's with umlauts)
Seminaarinkatu 15
SF-40100 Jyvaskyla (umlauts again)
Finland