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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 (in)security
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 23:08:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001f01c100df$a4274ab0$c0b7c6d4@SOMA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B3C833A.18E66768@null.net>

> Actually that is highly debatable -- it depends on the requirement.
> For a "rune" or wchar_t, since 16 bits are not enough to provide
> the required functionality, 32 bits is the obvious choice

iirc chinese (mandarin) has some 60k chars.  not that they're
all used, but for completness's sake yer gonna need 32 bits.

btw: to survive in japan you need ~2k chars, but most newspapers
     get by with ~6k.




  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-29 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-27  4:27 rob pike
2001-05-27  6:43 ` Richard Elberger
2001-05-29  9:17   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-06-29  9:23     ` Alex Danilo
2001-06-29 13:57       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-06-29 21:08         ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-02 18:10 David Gordon Hogan
2001-07-02 19:09 ` Dan Cross
2001-07-02 15:02 Sape Mullender
2001-07-02 15:52 ` Dan Cross
2001-07-02 16:24 ` Sam Ducksworth
2001-07-02 12:01 nigel
2001-07-02 12:05 ` George Michaelson
2001-07-02 12:07 ` rob pike
2001-07-02  1:38 okamoto
2001-07-02  2:03 ` Jim Choate
2001-07-02 11:56   ` rob pike
2001-05-27 15:00 rob pike
2001-05-27  0:52 Russ Cox
2001-05-26 23:02 jmk
2001-05-26 23:22 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-26 19:54 Mike Haertel
2001-05-26 22:47 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-26 23:23   ` Mike Haertel
2001-05-27  1:40     ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-28  4:40     ` Lucio De Re

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