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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 (in)security
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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 23:08:26 +0200
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> 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.