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Re: Re[2]: Jumbo Datasets
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"Stigers, Greg ~ AND" <[log in to unmask]>
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Stigers, Greg ~ AND
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Thu, 2 Oct 1997 20:32:27 -0400
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How is Unicode doing these days? Any opinions out there on it becoming a
standard?

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>From:  Craig Fairchild[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  Thursday, October 02, 1997 7:34 PM
>To:    [log in to unmask]
>Subject:       [HP3000-L] Re[2]: Jumbo Datasets
><snip>
>Not all character sets can be held in a single byte. The declarations were
>made
>this way to hold more generalized character set information with 16-bit
>characters. This encoding was to have been useful with internationalization
>efforts, but apparently these standards never took off.
><snip>

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