jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) (03/21/90)
In article <2009@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes: >Are 8-bit characters too much? Unless someone is willing to use the >usual typewriter characters only, 8 bits are too little. > There are many languages with more than 256 characters in the printed alphabet. Editors for these alphabets have to either use 2- and 3- character encoding sequences for a single displayed/printed character, or else use a 16-bit character. -- John Dudeck "You want to read the code closely..." jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu -- C. Staley, in OS course, teaching ESL: 62013975 Tel: 805-545-9549 Tanenbaum's MINIX operating system.