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From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@strakt.com>
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 13:38:59 +0200
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"peter a. cejchan" wrote:
> > Native is actually a lot easier.
>
> Really? I mean 'native' should be w UTF, w/o stdio.h, etc. Or does
> native stdio.h treat char as wchar?

stdio is horrible.  wchar's are a disaster.

use bio:

    http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/bio

The compiler already understands about UTF and runes and so does
libc (obviously):

    http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/comp.html

Plan 9 is very close to unix, but it's not really.  A lot of grief
gets caused by ape's heroic attempt to smash ANSI/POSIX into Plan 9.

It only gets really nasty when you have to port something that uses
the tty routines, sid's/pgrp's and signals -- most programs don't.