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Subject: Re: Character sets (was Re: wchar_t values)
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Date: 11 Apr 91 00:29:08 GMT
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In article <1108@sranha.sra.co.jp> erik@srava.sra.co.jp
   (Erik M. van der Poel) writes:

 =}It is safe to say that 0208 has had a following for quite a few years.

   Amongst the standards comittee it seems to have had a decade+ of
following, but how many programmers actually use JIS in programming.
The capability of handling it exists in many packages, but I think it's
rarely used as an internal encoding (I think SJIS is used the most, but
I'm not an expert).

   I think Mr. Diamond's point is valid even in reference to JIS X 0208.
The ASCII characters are not a part of the standard and are handled as
ASCII...

Al