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From: sahayman@watcgl.UUCP (Steve Hayman)
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Subject: Dumb ASCII? Use NAPLPS!
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Date: Fri, 17-Feb-84 17:14:28 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 17 17:14:28 1984
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Ah, but if you all used terminals employing the North American Presentation
Level Protocol Syntax (NAPLPS), you would have enough accents (true
accents right over the character itself, no backspace required) and enough
interesting characters to represent almost any Western language.
The character set of NAPLPS even has a special character called
the 'Greenlandic K'.  Handy. Plus, you can define your own character
sets.  I did an Inuit (Canadian Eskimo) character set once with
great success for a large conference of native peoples.

And all this technology is available NOW!

Steve Hayman
watmath!watcgl!sahayman