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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:44:41 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] hard-coded UTF-8 in wc.c
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On Mon Mar 15 17:46:11 EDT 2010, aim0shei@lavabit.com wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 05:13:40PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > perhaps you have misunderstood.
> >
> > inside programs, sometimes unicode text is represented as
> > runes.  runes are not sent over pipes nor stored in files.
> >
> > therefore, there is no need to wc runes.
>
> Yes, but why wc utility counts runes (wc(1) call them runes) manually
> using huge table instead of using functions from rune(3) such as utflen?

i didn't write wc, but i would imagine that it's for speed.

- erik