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Date:	Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:57:58 PST8
From:	"Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Chinese alphabet (was: technical problems with this list ?)

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Search around here. Somewhere there is a link to every standard
character set.

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:26:35 PST8, Peter Skye wrote:

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>Martin Rosenfeld wrote:
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>> Peter:
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>> Hey, I never got your response to my Chinese question!
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>I suggested you look at a Chinese typewriter. Or pick up a Chinese
>newspaper (there's one published in Los Angeles that I occasionally look
>at -- no I can't read Chinese). There are a *lot* of Asian languages,
>dialects and alphabets but the typewriters and newspapers can show you
>the most-used alphabets (character marks which are combined into
>characters).
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>Also take a look at RFC1468 "Japanese Character Encoding for Internet
>Messages" by J. Murai, M. Crispin, and E. van der Poel (June 1993).
>
>There is a standard (I don't know whose) for DBCS (which I think stands
>for Double Byte Character Set). Every character uses two bytes.
>There's a web site (I can't remember the url) where you can look up most
>languages and get the specific two-byte codes for each of a language's
>letters. I researched some Native American language alphabets there
>once.
>
>- Peter
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