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From: steveg@hammer.UUCP (Steve Glaser)
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Subject: Re: Translating Between Different Word Processors
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Date: Sun, 29-Jan-84 20:03:27 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 29 20:03:27 1984
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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
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