From:	lintux AT dds DOT nl (Wilmer van der Gaast)
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Subject:	Re: Length of Chars...
Date:	22 Jan 2000 00:01:48 GMT
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 17:36:27 -0600, David Cleaver wrote:
> I was wondering if there were any plans on changing the number of bits
> in char from 8 to 16 or something like that?  Not that I want this. 
> It's just that in limits.h its explicitly defined as 8 bits and I was
> thinking that someone might change this in the future.
It would not make any sense to change the char type into 16 bits, since
one character occupies 8 bytes. Changing this is breaking the standard,
well except for (shudder...) Unicode... :(

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