Re: A draft for a multibyte and multi-codepoint C string interface

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> The 16 bit restriction was a conscious decision, right?  ISO 10646
>> was 31 bit from the very start.  [...]
> Are there really people who want to switch to "Unicode" and not
> UTF-8, [...]?

Well, I don't know about `people', but I probably count.  I think the
only sane way to do Unicode is to widen `char'.

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