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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Decimal Arithmetic and number of bits-per-character.
Message-ID: <260677e3.399@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 20 Mar 90 18:35:15 GMT
References: <27696@cup.portal.com> <76700180@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <2009@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
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In article <2009@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>Are 8-bit characters too much?  Unless someone is willing to use the
>usual typewriter characters only, 8 bits are too little.
>
There are many languages with more than 256 characters in the printed
alphabet.  Editors for these alphabets have to either use 2- and 3-
character encoding sequences for a single displayed/printed character, 
or else use a 16-bit character.

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