At 15:55 14-10-98 -0700, you wrote:
>Ron Sverdlove x2517 writes:
> > The previous discussion referred to portability of using different
> > character sets. There is no SELECTED_CHAR_KIND function.
>
>F2k (at least the current draft thereof) adds one. It takes a default
>character argument naming the character set. The draft specifically
>treats the names 'DEFAULT', 'ASCII', and 'ISO10646'. (I've personally
>got a quibble about the error-proneness of that last name, with the
>letter oh right before a string of digits - in fact I could even see
>people reading it as all digits 15010646; that level of detail is
Indeed, some fonts don't even distinguish between Oh and Zero or One and El
:-(
>certainly still subject to change. My proposal, since I don't
>think ISO will probably change its name for us, is to at least
>add some punctuation TBD between the ISO and the digits).
>
Of course here 'ISO_10646' would be the first choice..
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