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From: kkim@sparky.UUCP (kyongsok kim)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: ASCII for national characters
Message-ID: <2929@sparky.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 89 21:38:42 GMT
Organization: North Dakota State University  Fargo, ND
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In article <9300002@hpfcdc.HP.COM> donn@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Donn Terry) writes:
:ISO2022: Lays on top of 646 or 8859 (or others) and defines language shifts.
:	Blows away any presumption that length of string in characters ==
:	length in bytes == space used in displaying text.

Could you please elaborate "on top of" and "language shifts" (possibly
using examples)?

Thanks in advance.

Kyongsok Kim
Dept. of Comp. Sci., North Dakota State University

e-mail: nukim@plains.nodak.edu; nukim@ndsuvax.bitnet; uunet!ndsuvax!nukim