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- From: andrew@alice.att.com (Andrew Hume)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,news.admin.misc
- Subject: Re: 8-bit representation, plus an X problem
- Summary: sorry for any confusion
- Keywords: ISO8859-1 CP850 fidonet gateway
- Message-ID: <24424@alice.att.com>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 05:01:51 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.24424
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- i appear to have confused randall a tad. the UTF-2 encoding
- requires 8 bit transmission.
- i am puzzled why people want to do 8859-* as an intermediate step.
- it seems clear to me that if you can get the damn bits through,
- you may as well do UTF-2, particularly as there is a well-defined
- invertible mapping between 10646 and all the 8859-* character sets.
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- andrew hume
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