Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site hpfcdc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!seismo!hao!hplabs!hpfcdc!hpfcdc!hpfcla!donn From: donn@hpfcla.UUCP Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: Re: What do we REALLY want? (Smalltalk!) Message-ID: <185000001@hpfcdc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Nov-85 21:33:00 EST Article-I.D.: hpfcdc.185000001 Posted: Sun Nov 3 21:33:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 04:01:26 EST References: <484@enmasse.UUCP> Organization: 03 Nov 85 19:33:00 MST Lines: 25 I'm not sure about ANSI, but both ISO and JIS have standards for character font selection. (So does GOST (that's Russia, for those who care), I believe.) Before carrying any discussion further on the issue of character sets, it's probably a good idea to do it in the context of existing standards. These standards do NOT solve all (or anything like all) of the problems, but any proposal inconsistent with them is doomed to fail due to government standards (usually NOT in the US) endorsing the above standards. In particular the ESC character is used in conjunction with SI and SO for a lot of mixed font data. I don't have copies of the relevent standards handy, and I'm not enough of an expert to talk sensibly about the technical issues, but pragmatic reality says that these standards have to be considered. Donn Terry HP Ft. Collins ihnp4!hpfcla!donn (303)226-3800 x2367 P.S. Honeywell (Arizona??) used to print a multi-colored chart of all the character set standards current at the time. It included ASCII/ISO, JIS, GOST, and (gasp) EBCDIC (at least). It summarized all the exceptions, national conventions, and had citations to the relevent standards. Does anyone know if they've kept it up, or if there is an equivalent I could get?