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From: watanabe@hpycla.HP.COM (Sotoji Watanabe)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: International Language Support
Message-ID: <1440001@hpycla.HP.COM>
Date: 25 Mar 88 00:45:15 GMT
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Organization: HP UXL (YCO), Hachioji, Japan
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>  My particular area of interest is Asian Language Support.  I'm aware
>of the JIS C6220 and JIS C6226 for Kana & Kanji support.  There was some
>talk a few years back of developing an ISO standard for Kanji/Chinese Han Zi.
>Has anything happened ? What coding standards do exist for characters other
>than the JIS standards mentioned above ? 

	For Japanese Katakana and Kanji: JIS X0201-1976 (former C6220) 
					 and JIS X0208-1983 (former C6226)
	For Chinese used in Mainland China: GB 5007.1 and 5007.2-1985
	For Korean Hanja: KS C5601-1987

	are existing as far as I know of.

Sotoji Watanabe