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From: eru@tnvsu1.tele.nokia.fi (Erkki Ruohtula)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: ASCII for national characters
Summary: too many control characters
Message-ID: <562@mjolner.tele.nokia.fi>
Date: 28 Nov 89 12:10:22 GMT
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Reply-To: eru@tnvsu1.UUCP (Erkki Ruohtula)
Organization: Nokia Telecommunications, Espoo, Finland
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I have long wondered why the ISO 8-bit character set introduces 32 more
control characters, while the ANSI system of terminal controls demonstrates
that we could in principle get along with just one control character. Using
these 32 positions for printable characters would have made possible
a single set for all (or nearly all) languages that use a latin-derived
alphabet.
Erkki Ruohtula     / Nokia Telecommunications             !
eru@tele.nokia.fi /  P.O. Box 33 SF-02601 Espoo, Finland  !
Huomautus : Esitt{m{ni mielipiteet ovat vain omiani.      !
Disclaimer: The opinions I have presented are just my own.!