Re: [PATCH] Beginnings of conpat 32 code cleanups

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
22 Nov 2002 12:38:55 -0800

Followup to: <20021122131351.C30808@duath.fsmlabs.com>
By author: Cort Dougan <cort@fsmlabs.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Plan9 takes it a step further and tackles the char/8-byte issue. A
> printable character is a 16-byte entity - a rune - while char is an 8-byte
> quantity. Doing everything in UNICODE forced the issue, I think.
>

... at which point it promptly fell apart as 16-bit Unicode was very
quickly found to be insufficient (not really surprising since the
16-bit decision was based on technical convenience rather than actual
requirements.)

-hpa

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