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From: billp@infmx.UUCP (Bill Potter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: US PC programmers still live in a 7-bit world!
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Date: 5 Jul 88 08:26:27 GMT
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In all this discussion about international standards for 7 bit / 8bit
characters I've missed any reference to the X-OPEN groups Native
Language Support specification. It seems to me that everything anyone
could want in terms of internationalisation is covered in this spec.,
and as it will now, hopefully, be implemented by the major European
computer manufacturers and thus become a standard in Europe, in is
only a matter of time before the American computer manufacturers have to
follow . (That is assuming they are still interested in selling to Europe.