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From: shinberd@unioncs.UUCP (David Shinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: TWO Byte Characters, SysEnvirons -- Help
Message-ID: <742@unioncs.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 88 19:34:55 GMT
Organization: Union College, Schenectady, NY
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I have been struggling with a seemingly simple problem for over two 
weeks now. 

How to put characters into a plain text file.  After some time I've
narrowed the problem down to the fact that a character occupies TWO BYTE
in MPW Pascal 2.0.  Since the program is only intended to be used in English
I have no need for this.  It also appears that some aplications such MPW itself
does not recognize two byte characters in a text file.  

My development system is:
	MacII with 5 Meg Ram, 80 Meg Apple Hardrive
	MPW 2.0
	MPW Pascal 2.0

My two questions are:

1) I think my problem is with the SysEnvirons, but I am not totaly sure. 

2) How does TextEdit deal with these tow byte characters and why do some
   applications seem to deal only with one byte characters?

Any Help or even just a reply would be greatly appreciated.  I appologize
if this is an old issue or something quite trival but I'm real new at this
and very lost.

			Thanks in Advance
			Dave Shinberg


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