- From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 00:49:59 +0900 (JST)
- To: PIRARD@vm1.ulg.ac.be (Andr'e PIRARD)
- Cc: 0003858921@mcimail.com, ietf-charsets@INNOSOFT.COM, ietf-822@dimacs.rutgers.edu, ietf@cnri.reston.va.us, WG-CHAR@rare.nl, ISO10646@jhuvm.cc.titech.ac.jp
> I participated to the design of Kermit multinational 8-bit > characters support and the TCP/IP network I work for is well on the way > towards the the same theory that every character on the communication > line is ISO 8859-1. I quite agree with you. In Europe and in US, it is too much true. > Now that the international character code ISO 10646 is out, isn't it time > for communication systems to be able to not only exchange pictures and sound > but also plain text? Will ISO 10646 be used by OSI 6? The problem is that, from the view point outside of Europe and US, ISO 10646 is merely a poor extension to ISO 8859-1. It assignes a single code point to different but similar characters in Japan and China. So, please don't say "international" when what you mean is merely "intereuropean". Masataka Ohta --Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)
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