Re: String representation

[Philip Newton]

On 18 Dec 00, at 15:21, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:

> There needs to be a hierachy of _repertoires_ such that:
> 
> ASCII is subset of Native is subset of wchar_t is subset of UNICODE.

But we can't even rely on that. I can imagine a couple of Native 
encodings around that fiddle with ASCII (for example, JIS has a Yen 
sign in place of the backslash, I believe). Even if we ignore language-
specific variants of ISO 646; I don't know whether they're still in use 
anywhere, but if they are, then { | } [ \ ] ~ are all out, and probably 
a couple of others, too (@?).

Cheers,
Philip
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