Character Sets (was Re: trigraphs)

[Robert Claeson]

In article <373 at cybaswan.UUCP>, iiit-sh at cybaswan.UUCP (Steve Hosgood) writes:

> The idea is that you define 8-bit alphabets, and reserve the character 0xFF
> to indicate "next byte is an alphabet identifier". This allows you to switch
> from one character set to another in mid-text very easily.

Actually, there's an ISO standard for this that uses the SS3 8-bit control
character. I'm afraid I can't remember the name of the standard, but AT&T plans
to use it in the SVR4 tty device driver anyway.
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