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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
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Subject: Re: char to decimal
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In message <4dc2b864$0$1468$426a74cc@news.free.fr>, Mayeul wrote:

> On 05/05/2011 15:59, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> In message<9pednRnBeuxtPF_QnZ2dnUVZ_uGdnZ2d@earthlink.com>, Patricia
>> Shanahan wrote:
>>
>>> There is a strong natural association between a character and the
>>> numeric value of its Unicode representation. There are several different
>>> ways of mapping between the two Boolean values and integers ...
>>
>> Only one “strong natural association”, though.
> 
> Says who?

Most reasonably-designed programming languages.