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- From: Markku.Savela@tel.vtt.fi (Markku Savela)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,news.admin.misc
- Subject: Re: 8-bit news
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 21:58:06 GMT
- Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland
- Lines: 15
- Message-ID: <1glkdeINNqfr@tik.vtt.fi>
- References: <Bz9Bw3.2I6@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <89RsVB3w165w@blues.kk.sub.org>
- Reply-To: savela@tel.vtt.fi (Markku Savela)
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- In-reply-to: kosta@blues.kk.sub.org's message of Tue, 15 Dec 92 01:23:06 MET
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- In article <89RsVB3w165w@blues.kk.sub.org> kosta@blues.kk.sub.org (Kosta Kostis) writes:
-
- >I fully agree. As long as we don't have one ultimate character set,
- >which ISO 10646 claims to be, as the network character set we need
-
- Actually we already have one ultimate character encoding system, sort
- of. And that is ISO 2022 + registered character sets. Implementing
- that is about the same complexity as ISO 10646, it's just different
- encoding for the same information.
-
- 1/2 :-)
-
- --
- Markku Savela (savela@tel.vtt.fi), Technical Research Centre of Finland
- Telecommunications Laboratory, Otakaari 7 B, SF-02150 ESPOO, Finland
-