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From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: Re: International alphabet Standards
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.155504.12959@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Organization: Northwestern University
References: <1991Jun7.142651.19529@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1991 15:55:04 GMT
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In article <1991Jun7.142651.19529@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> of comp.std.internat,
  beach@herbarium.bpp.msu.edu (Jim Beach) writes:
> 
> Would anyone provide advice?  Are there any stable international
> character coding schemes?
> 

UNICODE, although still not officially released, has been taken out of the
final review stage and should be quite stable.  If you can wait a few
months, UNICODE 1.0 (official edition) should be available.

UNICODE is a 16-bit code that encoded virtually any language, including
Chinese script and its derivatives (Japanese Kanji etc).

                /Peter
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