Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!sahayman From: sahayman@watcgl.UUCP (Steve Hayman) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Dumb ASCII? Use NAPLPS! Message-ID: <2140@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Feb-84 17:14:28 EST Article-I.D.: watcgl.2140 Posted: Fri Feb 17 17:14:28 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Feb-84 02:24:32 EST References: <665@ihuxq.UUCP> <312@ihuxo.UUCP> <670@ihuxx.UUCP> <914@ihuxr.UUCP>, <671@ihuxx.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 13 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