Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Path: watmath!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L. J. Dickey)
Subject: Re: Demise of the non-ASCII character set
Message-ID: <1992Mar26.144954.2389@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <1992Mar25.233341.10806@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1992 14:49:54 GMT
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In article <1992Mar25.233341.10806@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM> loc@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Leigh Clayton) writes:
> In response to gerth@watson.ibm.com (John Gerth), who decries the suggested
>death of the APL character set.
>
> Don't despair, it has never been so healthy. The APL character set will be
>part of IS 10646, and hopefully we'll manage to get it into Unicode too (pity
>the US can't use the international standard, but that's another gripe).

There seems to be more good news.  My understanding is that now, the
Unicode proposal and the 10646 proposals have been merged.

Since so many major players are involved in the Unicode consortium, no
vendor will be able to ignore Unicode (and ISO 10646).


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