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From: beach@herbarium.bpp.msu.edu (Jim Beach)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: International alphabet Standards
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.142651.19529@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 7 Jun 91 14:26:51 GMT
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Reply-To: beach@herbarium.bpp.msu.edu (Jim Beach)
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I'm a biologist working with an international standards group for
biological information and one of our committees has come up with
a gazetteer for international place names.  

We're putting the final touches on the standard and wonder if we
should mention any particular character coding schemes for all the
foreign alphabet characters that are a part of our standard.

Would anyone provide advice?  Are there any stable international
character coding schemes?

Thanks very much.



Jim Beach                                       jhbeach@msu  (Bitnet)
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology        beach@herbarium.bpp.msu.edu
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1312, U.S.A