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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Beginnings of conpat 32 code cleanups
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Followup to:  <20021122131351.C30808@duath.fsmlabs.com>
By author:    Cort Dougan <cort@fsmlabs.com>
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> 
> Plan9 takes it a step further and tackles the char/8-byte issue.  A
> printable character is a 16-byte entity - a rune - while char is an 8-byte
> quantity.  Doing everything in UNICODE forced the issue, I think.
> 

... at which point it promptly fell apart as 16-bit Unicode was very
quickly found to be insufficient (not really surprising since the
16-bit decision was based on technical convenience rather than actual
requirements.)

	-hpa
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