On Mon Mar 15 17:46:11 EDT 2010, [email protected] wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 05:13:40PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > perhaps you have misunderstood. > > > > inside programs, sometimes unicode text is represented as > > runes. runes are not sent over pipes nor stored in files. > > > > therefore, there is no need to wc runes. > > Yes, but why wc utility counts runes (wc(1) call them runes) manually > using huge table instead of using functions from rune(3) such as utflen?
i didn't write wc, but i would imagine that it's for speed. - erik
