Character Sets

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <373 at cybaswan.UUCP> iiit-sh at cybaswan.UUCP (Steve Hosgood) writes:
>OK, well it's *far* too late for such ideas to be submitted to X3J11 now, ...

	"It was always too late for that!"
		- Walt Kelly

>did anyone mention it in the early days, *before* it was too late?

You appear to have the C language standardization committee confused
with character code set standardization committees.  In fact there
have been numerous attempts to deal with this problem, and numerous
standards have resulted, including some ISO-sanctioned ones.  They
don't quite follow the Xerox approach you cited, but there are some
recognizable similarities, particularly in some of the Japanese work.