draft ANSI standard: trigraphs rear their ugly heads again

[Robert Firth]

In article <7369 at utzoo.UUCP> henry at utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> Not quite true.  There is a French portion of North America. (Quebec ...
>
>Although it's quite irrelevant to C and such, I would also point out that
>France is technically a North American country:  the islands of St. Pierre
>and Miquelon (sp?) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence are part of France.  Not
>just territories or possessions, mind you, they are provinces (districts?
>whatever...) of France.  For example, they are an electoral district in
>French elections, electing one representative to the legislature.
>
>> ... Besides, doesn't the UK have some
>> differences in what they use as character set (the pound sign instead
>> of the dollar sign, at least)...
>
>I believe they normally have pound sign where we have number sign (#).
>This is actually fairly harmless.
>-- 
>				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
>				{allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry

The UK national variant of ISO-7 differs in having a pound instead
of the hachure.  It also used to have different characters for the
ISO left and right brace, but that has long since disappeared.

North America also has Dutch and Spanish speaking populations, as
well as dozens of native languages and two non-roman scripts.  The
chauvinism of people in the USA is staggering.