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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
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Subject: Re: Programming and international character sets.
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Date: 2 Nov 88 12:03:14 GMT
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In article <207@jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG> mark@jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn) writes:
>In article <8804@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>>In article <532@krafla.rhi.hi.is> kjartan@rhi.hi.is (Kjartan R. Gudmundsson) writes:
>>>How difficult is it convert american/english programs so that they can 
>>>be used to handle foreign text? [etc.]

Xerox have supported a 16-bit character set (XNS) for years.
Some of the surprises mentioned by Mark Colburn have been no news
to Interlisp-D programmers for a long time.

The kludges being proposed for C & UNIX just so that a sequence of
"international" characters can be accessed as bytes rather than pay
the penalty of switching over to 16 bits are unbelievable.