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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:24:14 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] awk, not utf aware...
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> And it's wonderful that the C standard defines a character literal as
> so:
>
> 	char-literal:
> 		' characters '
> 	characters:
> 		character
> 		characters character
>
> (or something like that)
>
> Question, then: why do we need wchar_t/Rune?
>

because we have more tha 255 characters.

- erik