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From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Kernel Hacks & Weird Filenames
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Date: 22 Apr 88 23:22:24 GMT
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> There are already multibyte character sets (e.g., Taiwanese) for which the
> representations of some characters contain an ASCII '/' as the second
> byte.  Some sort of kernel hack configurable for different languages
> is necessary already.

Assuming you use those character sets.  Are there no plans for an EUC character
set for Chinese?  (I have heard that AT&T's EUC scheme is conformant to some
sort of ISO standard.)  Such a character set would use only bytes with the 8th
bit set as bytes in such a two-character sequence.