Programming and international character sets.

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

In article <207 at jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG> mark at jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn) writes:
>In article <8804 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>>In article <532 at krafla.rhi.hi.is> kjartan at rhi.hi.is (Kjartan R. Gudmundsson) writes:
>>>How difficult is it convert american/english programs so that they can 
>>>be used to handle foreign text? [etc.]

Xerox have supported a 16-bit character set (XNS) for years.
Some of the surprises mentioned by Mark Colburn have been no news
to Interlisp-D programmers for a long time.

The kludges being proposed for C & UNIX just so that a sequence of
"international" characters can be accessed as bytes rather than pay
the penalty of switching over to 16 bits are unbelievable.