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From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V89 #101
Message-ID: <1237@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 12 Nov 89 21:30:28 GMT
References: <807@shelby.Stanford.EDU> <2663@munnari.oz.au> <4296@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi>
Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <4296@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi> tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) writes:
>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

The Native Language System as defined by HP (who once invented the NLS thing)
supports different regional languages, cultural customs, collating sequences
etc for one and the same country.  They also support 16 bits characters and
are now introducing 32 bit ones.  NLS with 8 bit support is now an X/Open
requirement (see the green X/Open books).

X/Open has identified ISO 8859-1 Latin as the first 8-bit character set
so I really hope TeX will be right this time.  The national character support
in TeX 2.x is terrible.

Bo