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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] same functions everywhere
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Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 17:51:26 +0200
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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
> rog@vitanuova.com wrote:
> > don't most >8bit character encodings (including unicode) provide at
> > least one code point to represent "not a character"?
>
> We're not talking about character codes, but rather data
> obtained via getc().  It could be an arbitrary binary stream.

yup, getc() returns 8 bits.  it does not return unicode chars or unicode
codespace characters.