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From: Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:03:29 -0800
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On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 11:26:53 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

>Why was there a need to define the size of a character at all? 

Because C did worked that way and lead to non-wora code.
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