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From: lamy@ai.toronto.edu
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Subject: Re: draft ANSI standard:  one change that would *really* help Europe
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Date: Tue, 2-Dec-86 11:24:46 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  2 11:24:46 1986
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ISO Latin 1 is an 8 bit character set that is a superset of ASCII.
Portability, then, is a matter of having standard transliteration rules, e.g.
c-cedilla --> c    , a-ring --> aa

But I sincerely doubt that code with native identifiers would ever make it to
public distribution. Such code is usually commented in English (or an
approximation thereof), with English identifiers (i, j, k, x, y, z, p, c, s
:-).

Jean-Francois Lamy 
one day, I may have all the characters I need to type my name :-( 

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