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It's a bit of a hack, but don't most char implementations in C just ignore the high-order bit? --Alan Wexelblat, Reality Hacker, Author, and Cyberspace Bard Media Lab - Advanced Human Interface Group wex@media.mit.edu Voice: 617-258-9168 Page: 617-945-1842 na53607@anon.penet.fi We are Chaos Boys. We are coming to a paradigm near you.
"Alan (Miburi-san) Wexelblat" <wex@media.mit.edu> sez: > It's a bit of a hack, but don't most char implementations in C just > ignore the high-order bit? No. A char in C is signed or unsigned according to the whim of the compiler designer, but all bits are significant. Some UN*X editors have a nasty habit of nuking the high bit. Vi frequently does, GNU emacs doesn't. Stephen