16 May
2020
16 May
'20
1:26 a.m.
On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 01:34:27AM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
ron(a)ronnatalie.com wrote in
<077a01d62b08$e696bee0$b3c43ca0$(a)ronnatalie.com>:
|Char is different. One of the silly foibles of C. char can be signed or
|unsigned at the implementation's decision.
And i would wish Thompson and Pike would have felt the need to
design UTF-8 ten years earlier. Maybe we would have a halfway
usable "wide" character interface in the standard (C) library.
Yeah, I agree. UTF-8 is clever, really clever. It makes the other
stuff look ham handed.