-=> Quoting Simon Avery to Goran Eriksson <=-

 SA> Goran Eriksson on 05 Feb 00 in NET_DEV

 SA> Hello Goran
 
 GE> What multi-byte character sets are currently used in ftn messages?
 GE> With multi-byte character sets I mean character sets where one
 GE> character is encoded into more than one byte.

 SA> Cyrillic, Chinese and Hebrew AFAIK - and I've no idea of the 
 SA> implementation of those, or even if they're true multi-byte or simply 
 SA> extended codepages.

Why would Cyrillic be using multibyte character sets? Even when you
include the characters used in only some Slavic languages, there's
nowhere near 256 characters. It fits just fine into the upper 128 in
both KOI-8, and ISO 8859 Cyrillic. Ditto for Hebrew. 

The only languages that use multi-byte characters sets *at all* are
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Or at least those are the only ones I've
ever heard of. 

I suspect that you are confusing "non-Latin-1 8-bit character sets"
which still use *single* bytes for characters, but just describe them
differently than Latin-1, with *16-bit* character sets where it takes
2 bytes to specify *one* character. Those are needed for ideographic
languages because of the *thousands* of characters involved.

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