From: dot@dotat.at   
      
   gmt@cs.arizona.edu (Gregg Townsend) wrote:   
   >   
   >If you want to avoid headaches, stay compatible with these features   
   >of modern systems that are so common we take them for granted:   
   >   
   >    individually addressable characters   
   >    8-bit characters   
      
   You mean bytes. Characters don't fit in bytes.   
      
   >    ASCII character set   
      
   You need to be agnostic about character set. ASCII has been obsolete   
   for decades. Some code uses wide characters (UTF-32, or (brokenly)   
   UTF-16 etc.), and some uses multibyte characters (UTF-8 or ISO-2022 etc.).   
      
   Tony.   
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