Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:16967 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:526 comp.emacs:3773 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!hplabs!pyramid!infmx!billp 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! Message-ID: <278@infmx.UUCP> Date: 5 Jul 88 08:26:27 GMT References: <1988Jun22.223158.1366@LTH.Se> <4581@killer.UUCP> <2344@rti.UUCP> Organization: Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, CA. Lines: 9 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.