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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: What do we REALLY want?
Message-ID: <444@graffiti.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 17-Nov-85 20:18:13 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 17 20:18:13 1985
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> In article <422@graffiti.UUCP> peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >	0xxxxxxx	  Normal ASCII
> >	10xxxxxx	  Foreign ROMAN characters
> >	11xxxxxx xxxxxxxx Kanji or other extended character
> 
> Alternately, use a 16 bit code, as has been mentioned, keeping the lower byte
> the same as the current ascii standard, but setting bits in the upper byte

That would also work, but wouldn't address the problem of storage, which is
what I was attempting to address. It's already been mentioned that most people
aren't willing to put up with a factor of two increase in the size of their
text files just to satisfy the Japanese. The reason for the ethnocentric
use of ASCII as the base character set is because most of the worlds computers
are in the US...
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