From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/25/2025 2:49 AM, Michael S wrote:   
   > On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 02:00:16 -0600   
   > Lynn McGuire  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 12/24/2025 11:11 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
   >>> Lynn McGuire  writes:   
   >>>> On 12/24/2025 12:22 AM, Keith Thompson wrote:   
   >>>>> Lawrence D’Oliveiro  writes:   
   >>>>>> On Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:27:53 -0500, James Kuyper wrote:   
   >>>>>>> Could you identify which document guarantees that every Unicode   
   >>>>>>> locale contains "UTF-8"?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> How else would it work? Bytes have to be 8-bit.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I can't figure out what point you're trying to make.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Obviously bytes in C have to be *at least* 8 bits, but I don't see   
   >>>>> the relevance.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Take a look at the article to which you replied.  How does your   
   >>>>> followup have anything to do with it?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> One of several points that you snipped is that locale names can   
   >>>>> contain the string "utf8", not "UTF-8".   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Did C never work on the 6 bit machines such as the Univac 1108 (36   
   >>>> bit)   
   >>>   
   >>> Yes, there is a C compiler for the Univac machines.   The byte size   
   >>> is 9 bits.   
   >>   
   >> I get the feeling that you are messing with me.  That would be four 9   
   >> bit characters per 36 bit word.   
   >>   
   >> But the machinations to store that unnatural 9 bits would be crazy.   
   >> I doubt that would be supported in hardware.   
   >>   
   >> Lynn   
   >>   
   >   
   > Does not the same apply even stronger to your original suggestion to   
   > use 6-bit characters?   
      
   Those 6 bit characters, upper case only, were on the 36 bit (Univac   
   1108) or 60 bit (CDC 7600) machines.  Those machines were native 6 bit   
   bytes, at 6 bytes per word or 10 bytes per word.   
      
   Those machines were superseded by the 32 bit machines with 8 bit   
   characters.  And now we have the 64 bit machines with 8 bit characters.   
   We will have 128 bit machines soon in the relative sense, if not already.   
      
   Lynn   
      
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