On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 09:59:02PM +0200, Antoni Grzymala wrote: > May I suggest, that it would much simpler for the world to actually fix > a few libs in a few conservative OS'es? > > There's nothing that makes the notion of one-byte-per-character somewhat > universal. Just an arbitrary desision
Absolutely. > Why not two characters or four? character == byte, one entity less.