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From: diamond@jit345.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: wchar_t values
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.093836.10553@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
Date: 11 Apr 91 09:38:36 GMT
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In article <78@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:

>How can you be codeset independent by having ISO C addendum about 10646?

The same way you can be word-size independent and still specify minimum
values.  Well, almost the same way.  It is still worth standardizing a
translation scheme to be used WHEN the character set is 10646.  (It would
also be worth standardizing a translation scheme to be used when the
character set is the invariant subset of 646.)
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Norman Diamond       diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com
If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.