Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!rutgers!clyde!watmath!watnot!ccplumb From: ccplumb@watnot.UUCP (Colin Plumb) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.internat Subject: Re: ANSI C -- trigraphs and character sets Message-ID: <12304@watnot.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Dec-86 11:35:46 EST Article-I.D.: watnot.12304 Posted: Wed Dec 17 11:35:46 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Dec-86 04:36:54 EST References: <106@decvax.UUCP> <5453@brl-smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: ccplumb@watnot.UUCP (Colin Plumb) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 18 Xref: mnetor comp.lang.c:454 comp.std.internat:56 >>Page 10, line 1ff. The Standard should recognize the primacy of the ISO >>Latin 1 character set. > >We (they, actually; that was before my time) tried to do >essentially that once, but immediately ran up against the >problem that some important vendors much prefer EBCDIC. Are you sure that should be the plural "important vendors"? :-) Seriously, if "before your time" means any significant number of years, they should try again. With apologies to any EBCDIC (or other) users out there, ASCII (And supersets, like the JIS standard) reigns pretty much unchallenged these days. -Colin Plumb (ccplumb@watnot.UUCP) Zippy says: Hey, wait a minute!! I want a divorce!! ..you're not Clint Eastwood!!