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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] same functions everywhere
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 08:55:45 +0000
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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.