Multilingual communications in an open system architecture

Abstract

The Presentation Layer caters for representations of data capable of accomodating a variety of needs in the OSI Application Layer. The need for different character repertoires in various OSI applications depends on the application involved, but an issue common to all of them is the internalization of the forthcoming OSI-based information technology which needs a large set of facilities when character repertoires are considered. The discussion in this paper is dedicated to the accommodation of the existing coding system in the Presentation Layer, the identified deficiencies and the proposed solutions for accommodating the new encoding technique envisaged in the course of the development of the multiple octet code.