[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:11:32 BST, Chris Wareham said: > >>Are there any machines >>out there with a char that isn't one byte? The PDP-10 perhaps? > > Asiatic languages. 16 and 32-bit encodings of Unicode. > > Or more correctly, 'char' is a one-byte, but this code is buggy because > it assumes that all representable glyphs are one byte wide. >
Zarro boogs here. A char is one byte - and it has little relevance when talking about "representable glyphs". A char doesn't necessarily imply that one is dealing with strings of printable characters, it is simply a shorthand for an integral type. My operating system happens to use the ASCII character set, so it also happens to map nicely onto a char. Now if my operating system used Unicode throughout then that would be a whole different kettle of fish ... Chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
