From: goer@ellis.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) Subject: Wide Characters (was Re: 8 bit clean implies what?) Date: 9 Feb 1993 01:43:10 GMT
allen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen) writes:
>>As I understand it, an editor which is 8 bit clean can display ALL 256
>>characters on the output device.
>Yes. But here's another fly in the ointment: You shouldn't be so
>eurocentric... there are apparently versions of vt220s which display two
>successive characters as a single chinese or japanese character....
The idea is to keep all character-based code potentially indifferent to char-
acter size. Soon we hope that the internationalization/localization issue
will be solved, to some extent, by ISO 10646, which specifies, as I recall,
32-bit wide characters. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.
---Richard L. Goerwitz goer%midway@uchicago.bitnet goer@midway.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!ellis!goer