Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site hammer.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!hammer!steveg From: steveg@hammer.UUCP (Steve Glaser) Newsgroups: net.text,net.wanted Subject: Re: Translating Between Different Word Processors Message-ID: <475@hammer.UUCP> Date: Sun, 29-Jan-84 20:03:27 EST Article-I.D.: hammer.475 Posted: Sun Jan 29 20:03:27 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Feb-84 02:43:10 EST References: <315@bnl.UUCP> <1608@rlgvax.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 22 There's also an ANSI standard somewhere in the mill (nowhere near approval yet, I don't even thing there is a DRAFT out). I forget the number they assigned for it. The Navy apparently is trying to get an interchange format that they can require from vendors. The standard is supposed to address things like subscript representation, charactersets, and such. Also, there is a revision of X3.4 undersay (the "ASCII" standard) to produce an encoding for the upper half of the 8-bit ASCII set so that we can handle national alphabets reasonably. Ever try to run unix on a terminal where the vertical bar comes out as an 'o' with an umlat? Unforthnately, there appears to be no chance for changing the current situation of overloaded bit encodings, but at least we may have one set that can "express" all the characters (albeit not in the places that the various countries would like them). Steve Glaser tektronix!steveg steveg.tektronix@rand-relay