Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ames!pasteur!agate!garnet.berkeley.edu!ked From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: US PC programmers still live in a 7-bit world! Message-ID: <11857@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 9 Jul 88 18:43:06 GMT References: <1988Jun22.223158.1366@LTH.Se> <699@omen.UUCP> <1288@odyssee.UUCP> <29@cybaswan.UUCP> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 19 In article <29@cybaswan.UUCP> iiit-sh@cybaswan.UUCP (s.hosgood) writes: >The world needs an 8-bit international character set. This sounds ethnocentric to me. An eight-bit character set is barely adequate for the languges prevailing in contemporary North America and Europe. It is totally inadequate for the major languages of the world (measured by contemporary usage, probable future import) including Japanese, Chinese, etc. E H. Kinmonth, Hist. Dept., Univ. of Ca., Davis Davis, Ca. 95616 916-752-1636/0776 Disclaimer: This is AmeriKa! Who needs a disclaimer! Internet: ehkinmonth@ucdavis.edu cck@deneb.ucdavis.edu BITNET: ehkinmonth@ucdavis UUCP: {ucbvax, lll-crg}!ucdavis!ehkinmonth {ucbvax, lll-crg}!ucdavis!deneb!cck