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- From: randall@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (Randall Atkinson)
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- I understand that there are many sites that currently have
- terminals supporting ISO 646, but by the same token, there
- are a lot more terminals that support US ASCII and a lot of
- other terminals out there that are vaguely derived from US ASCII
- in a variety of incompatible ways. My understanding is that
- ISO 646 isn't a subset of all of the common 7-bit roman
- character sets in use. If that is indeed a correct understanding,
- then the ISO 646 effort isn't going to provide a general solution
- anyway.
-
- These problems don't have a good general solution because of the
- many conflicting extensions/modifications of what was ASCII.
- Japanese and Chinese extensions are also a problem in this regard.
-
- My own position is that the standard should not attempt to address
- the ISO 646 problem but instead make the "work arounds" (which is
- the best way to describe what I hear proposed) implementation
- defined as being outside the scope of the standard.
-
- The standard should use ISO 8859 as the base standard.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 15
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