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From: dan@ttdsv.UUCP (Dan Sahlin)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Use of national characters in names
Message-ID: <29@ttdsv.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-May-84 01:46:06 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 24 01:46:06 1984
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There IS a standard on how to represent the national characters
in a way that makes ASCII a true subset.
Also the Teletex and the Videotex standards are subsets of this
standard (ISO 6937/2-1983).
The code is essentially an 8-bit code with 328 different characters!
Most characters consist of just one byte, but the characters having
a diacritical mark consist of two bytes. The first byte is a "non-spacing"
diacritical mark affecting the next byte.
I have written an editor using this standard, and I find it very
convenient.
All languages in Europe, except English, need something more than ASCII
in order to be written properly. So far, each country has solved
this problem in its own way by exchanging the characters "{}[]|\" to some
national characters. Let's hope for something better in the future!

Dan Sahlin              (decvax!mcvax!enea!ttds!dan)