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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Announce: port
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 09:40:29 +0000
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Boyd Roberts wrote:
> stdio is horrible.  wchar's are a disaster.

Sounds like somebody who doesn't use them enough to know.
wchar_t is closely analogous to rune.
The real problem is that "char" is inadequate for encoding a character,
largely a consequence of Dennis chiming in on the sizeof(char)==1 side.