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From: kupfer@ucbvax.ARPA (Mike Kupfer)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Is 8-bit ASCII enough?
Message-ID: <10597@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 16:15:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.10597
Posted: Wed Oct  9 16:15:23 1985
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Reply-To: kupfer@ucbvax.UUCP (Mike Kupfer)
Organization: Xerox Corporation
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Summary: are we punting on oriental languages?

I think that 8 bits is still not enough if you want to include oriental
or other non-Roman character sets.  So using only 8 bits is reasonable
if you assume that a typical UNIX system will not be able to display
these characters (so why bother with them), but you should realize that
this assumption is being made.
-- 
Mike Kupfer
Xerox Corporation - SDD
kupfer.pa@xerox.ARPA
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