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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!
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Date: 9 Jul 88 18:43:06 GMT
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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!

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