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From: dag@control.lth.se (Dag Bruck)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
Subject: National character representation of C++ (was: design by committee)
Summary: Do you have a non-ASCII terminal?
Message-ID: <1990Nov27.143307.8086@lth.se>
Date: 27 Nov 90 14:33:07 GMT
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In article <1990Nov25.161506.9659@tsa.co.uk> domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop) writes:
>In article <1990Nov23.211727.2802@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu
>(Henry Spencer) writes:
>> I would have hoped that X3J16 would not be re-hashing all the dumb ideas...
>> The right answer to national character sets is ISO Latin 1 or equivalent,
>
>equipment which talks using an 8-bit character set such as ISO Latin 1
>is an obvious (minimum) requirement for program development.

Do you have an ISO Latin 1 keyboard?  Do you suggest I could use one?

ISO Latin 1 solves some of the output problems (ever considered why
it's called ISO Latin *1*?), but it does not solve the input problem.

I believe the current proposal by Bjarne Stroustrup has important
merits by combining readability and writability, compared to
trigraphs. I also know several people that prefer kerywords like
'or' instead of '|' even though they have a US keyboard.

Dag Michael Br\"uck (who has his own problems, as you can see)
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