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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: 8-bit ASCII on UNIX
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Date: 17 Apr 88 21:45:00 GMT
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Reply-To: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
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|   As long as the 8th bit is not being utilized, it is not a big deal to have a
|new standard for it.  Let's make it to the point.  Suppose there are two

You may be too late grabbing that 8th bit. There are standards for
character sets with 256 entries. Try for the next byte. You need it for
oriental languages.

	Ken