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From: decot@hpisod2.cup.hp.com (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Character sets (was Re: wchar_t values)
Message-ID: <11580027@hpisod2.cup.hp.com>
Date: 9 Apr 91 01:25:03 GMT
References: <1991Apr4.063141.29504@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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A coded character set should be considered to be an agreement between
two or more of the following parties:

    the programming language processor that converts a particular character
    specification into a binary bit pattern

    the font-drawing (or dotmatrix-selection) software in the output
    device on which the bit pattern will be ultimately be translated
    into a visual character form

    the input device from which the bit pattern will be expected to
    be generated in response to selection of that character

The solutions must thus be addressed to two or more of these areas.

Dave Decot