Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!fernwood!uupsi!sunic!dkuug!dkuugin!keld From: keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: ISO 646 alternate representation Message-ID: Date: 7 Apr 91 12:31:31 GMT References: <1991Apr4.171657.27791@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <15738@smoke.brl.mil> Sender: news@slyrf.dkuug.dk Lines: 20 gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: >In article keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) writes: >>It is not our local standard we want supported, but ISO 646 invariant, >>which is an *international* standard, and the base for all national >>ISO 646 standards. >And which the existing C standard does support. ISO 9899:1990 supports ISO DIS 646 IRV, not the invariant part of 646. >>WG14 are now fully behind this Danish requirement. >That is not what I hear from other WG14 members. I think these members are not that well informed then. I quote the #10 resolution from the WG14 Copenhagen meeting 90-11-27 "It is the opinion of WG14 that the problems caused by national variants of ISO 646 have to be solved" This resolution was unanimously approved.