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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The D Programming Language
Message-ID: <7389@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 1 Mar 88 21:43:11 GMT
References: <12059@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <12059@brl-adm.ARPA> dsill@NSWC-OAS.arpa (Dave Sill) writes:
>The time is ripe for a more flexible "Code for Information
>Interchange".  How many more years/decades will we be forced to make
>do with a lousy 95 symbols: all predefined, most vastly overloaded?

ISO extended the character set several years ago.  It has also been
extended (in more than one way) to accommodate Kanji characters.
C source can be in EBCDIC (for example); it seems inappropriate to
require either a specific character code "standard", or an even
larger set of characters than it already uses, given the amount of
trouble with this we've already had.