On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:11:32 BST, Chris Wareham said: > Ahem, this is *old* code (in fact it started life in someone > elses Slashdot headline ticker program). Hence the syntactically > correct (but superfluous) 'sizeof(char)'. 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. -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech
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