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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Re: draft ANSI standard: trigraphs rear their ugly heads again
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Date: Fri, 5-Dec-86 00:59:14 EST
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I still don't understand why the omission of the graphic characters
open/close curly brace was somehow necessary to provide a European
character set. Are those character sets defined by the characters
they exclude? Or is the pot calling the kettle black here?

It seems like we are now all in a mess, we don't have umlauts, they
don't have curly braces etc. Obviously a superset is the only remotely
acceptable solution.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University