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Re: Module Considerations


Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com> writes:

> Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@nada.kth.se> writes:
> > There is some
> > "pallette switching" byte version of Unicode, isn't there?
> 
> Never heard of it.  Older ISO standards use escape sequences to
> switch character encodings, but Unicode is basically state-less.

Yes.  I mixed up Unicode and ISO 10646 which I was thinking about.
ISO 10646 had a code HOP which could be used to select a default
value (i.e. a state) for the higher order bits.

/mdj