Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site kuling.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!enea!kuling!andersa
From: andersa@kuling.UUCP (Anders Andersson)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: The Internationalisation of Unix - A European View
Message-ID: <754@kuling.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Jun-85 05:21:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: kuling.754
Posted: Tue Jun 18 05:21:35 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Jun-85 13:48:24 EDT
References: <211@pyrltd.UUCP> <330@erisun.UUCP>
Reply-To: andersa@kuling.UUCP (Anders Andersson)
Distribution: net
Organization: The Royal Inst. of Techn., Stockholm
Lines: 20

In article <330@erisun.UUCP> leif@erisun.UUCP (Leif Samuelsson) writes:
>In article <211@pyrltd.UUCP> bejc@pyrltd.UUCP (Brian Clark) writes:
>> /usr/group/UK is proposing to establish an International Working Group to
>> develop current ideas on the integration of European character sets into
>> formal proposals.

>For everyone's info, the following eleven characters are to be
>considered national, and should be avoided in software meant to
>be "international":
>
>	#$@[\]^{|}~

Regardless of whether this is the proper way to go about the problem
or not (I don't think it is), shouldn't "`" be among those characters?

The subject line (and the fact that this discussion goes to net.unix,
not net.text) seems a little strange to me. Does the Working Group
focus on character sets in Unix specifically? I consider this a problem
of natural language text representation in general. I would appreciate
if someone could make these things clear.