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Date:	Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:26:35 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Chinese alphabet (was: technical problems with this list ?)

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Martin Rosenfeld wrote:
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> Peter:
>
> Hey, I never got your response to my Chinese question!

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).

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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