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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Size of SysV "block" (really: byte != 8 bits)
Message-ID: <3687@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 20:25:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: ncoast.3687
Posted: Thu Jul 30 20:25:19 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 2-Aug-87 01:49:49 EDT
References: <218@astra.necisa.oz> <142700010@tiger.UUCP> <2792@phri.UUCP> <857@bsu-cs.UUCP> <6144@brl-smoke.ARPA> <274@wrs.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <274@wrs.UUCP> by dg@wrs.UUCP (David Goodenough):
+---------------
| >And people who believe that 8 bits is sufficiently to encode a
| >character are either naive or stupid.
| 
| Well I've never yet had a problem communicating with any machine that uses
| ASCII (American *STANDARD* Code for Information Interchange), and it's my
>...
| others that are not attached to any architecture. I don't know about the
| rest of the world, but it looks to me as if 8 bit chars are here to stay.
| (Just out of idle curiosity what size did you have in mind for a character,
| and WHY?)
+---------------

The key words are in here:  *AMERICAN* Standard Code... and "I don't know about
the rest of the world...".  Kanji (for example) doesn't fit in 8 bits.  Is the
U.S. of A. the only country allowed to use computers?
-- 
 Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc
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