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1 total messages Started by Mikael Steldal Sat, 30 Dec 1995 01:33

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Author: Mikael Steldal
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 01:33

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>Most modern machines will use ISO 8859-1, which doesn't have this problem 
>(but has a >number of codes with the 8th bit set, which introduces a set of 
>problems of its own).

Yes, that could cause problems if you use a stupid compiler which
defines char as signed by default. It would be good if the standard
mandated char to be unsigned.
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