mikeb@inset.UUCP (Mike Banahan) (10/03/85)
You may be interested to hear of the creation of the newsgroup net.internat, which is to serve as the forum for the working parties on internationalisation. It has a bearing on those interested in natural languages, because many of the problems are both hard and prompted by the requirement, in many countries, for systems which can process data in languages other than English. The effect on C may also be more than expected. Current proposals on how to handle characters sets with more than 8 bits are likely to make a substantial difference to the way that applications are coded. To write a C program so that it is independent (as much as possible) of the character set will require a new way of thinking. Comments are invited. -- Mike Banahan, Technical Director, The Instruction Set Ltd. mcvax!ukc!inset!mikeb