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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 (in)security
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Date: Mon,  2 Jul 2001 11:52:14 -0400
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In article <20010702150244.CBEF9199E3@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
>At 256 bits per character I think xml is an excellent idea.

Perpetuating the joke, I know, but I have a question.

If one is going to represent the character set using XML, then
how does one represent the characters which make up the XML?

Oh, I know, using 7 bit ASCII?

Wouldn't it be so much easier if we were still using the PDP-10,
which had variable size bytes, up to 36 bits in size?

	- Dan C.