Re: Synthetic scripts (was: Re: Private Use Agreements and Unapproved Characters)

From: James E. Agenbroad (jage@loc.gov)
Date: Mon Mar 18 2002 - 13:11:30 EST


On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Kenneth Whistler wrote:

> Dan Kogai continued:
> [snip]
> > His
> > favorite appears to be ISO-2022 but as Yet Another Perl Encoding Hacker,
> > ISO-2022 is pain in the arse....
>
> You got that right!
>
> --Ken
>
                                              Monday, March 18, 2002
Is ISO 2022 a character set (characters with their codes) or a complex
(painful?) means to announce and negotiate among various sets? I thought
it was the latter; am I missing something?

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