On Declaring Arbitrarily Coded Alphabets The inability of existing programming languages to handle character strings from more than one or two alphabets is mentioned and a scheme for declaring additional alphabets is proposed. The scheme provides for: many-to-one encodings, right or left justification, collating sequences different from numeric sequence, variations in character size (number of bits.) from alphabet to alphabet, and arbitrary source-language character representation. CACM May, 1964 Shaw, C. J. CA640505 JB March 10,1978 12:13 AM 1084 4 1084 1084 4 1084 1084 4 1084 1084 4 1084 1084 4 1084 1084 4 1084 1379 4 1084 1625 4 1084 1945 4 1084 1084 5 1084 1084 5 1084 1084 5 1084 1945 5 1084 603 5 1084 644 5 1084 669 5 1084 791 5 1084 797 5 1084 868 5 1084 823 6 1084 914 6 1084 915 6 1084 917 6 1084 984 6 1084 989 6 1084 990 6 1084 1012 6 1084 1084 6 1084 1098 6 1084 1122 6 1084 1138 6 1084 1139 6 1084 1141 6 1084 1200 6 1084 1223 6 1084 1265 6 1084 1336 6 1084 1396 6 1084 1455 6 1084 1477 6 1084 1487 6 1084 1491 6 1084 1496 6 1084 483 6 1084 584 6 1084 669 6 1084 680 6 1084 763 6 1084