Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!sei.cmu.edu!firth From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: draft ANSI standard: trigraphs rear their ugly heads again Message-ID: <489@aw.sei.cmu.edu.sei.cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 16-Dec-86 14:52:56 EST Article-I.D.: aw.489 Posted: Tue Dec 16 14:52:56 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Dec-86 19:05:01 EST References: <1381@hoptoad.uucp> <659@water.UUCP> <7369@utzoo.UUCP> Sender: netnews@sei.cmu.edu Reply-To: firth@bd.sei.cmu.edu.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, SEI, Pgh, Pa Lines: 27 In article <7369@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: >> Not quite true. There is a French portion of North America. (Quebec ... > >Although it's quite irrelevant to C and such, I would also point out that >France is technically a North American country: the islands of St. Pierre >and Miquelon (sp?) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence are part of France. Not >just territories or possessions, mind you, they are provinces (districts? >whatever...) of France. For example, they are an electoral district in >French elections, electing one representative to the legislature. > >> ... Besides, doesn't the UK have some >> differences in what they use as character set (the pound sign instead >> of the dollar sign, at least)... > >I believe they normally have pound sign where we have number sign (#). >This is actually fairly harmless. >-- > Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology > {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry The UK national variant of ISO-7 differs in having a pound instead of the hachure. It also used to have different characters for the ISO left and right brace, but that has long since disappeared. North America also has Dutch and Spanish speaking populations, as well as dozens of native languages and two non-roman scripts. The chauvinism of people in the USA is staggering.