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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Character Sets
Message-ID: <10194@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 3 May 89 10:39:58 GMT
References: <4623@freja.diku.dk> <12.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.UUCP> <2469@ogccse.ogc.edu> <373@cybaswan.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <373@cybaswan.UUCP> iiit-sh@cybaswan.UUCP (Steve Hosgood) writes:
>OK, well it's *far* too late for such ideas to be submitted to X3J11 now, ...

	"It was always too late for that!"
		- Walt Kelly

>did anyone mention it in the early days, *before* it was too late?

You appear to have the C language standardization committee confused
with character code set standardization committees.  In fact there
have been numerous attempts to deal with this problem, and numerous
standards have resulted, including some ISO-sanctioned ones.  They
don't quite follow the Xerox approach you cited, but there are some
recognizable similarities, particularly in some of the Japanese work.