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Re: While loop with bool, same issue

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Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> writes:
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> (3) Eventually char may be a 16 bit integer carrying Unicode.

16 bits is not enough to represent all Unicode characters.

>  Letters are not contiguous in Unicode.

No, but a-z and A-Z are.  Depending on the program's requirements, you
might actually want to check whether a character is one of the 52 Latin
letters, rather than whether it's a "letter" in any more general sense.

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While loop with bool, same issue Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 08:59 -0700
  Re: While loop with bool, same issue Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-10-14 13:31 -0400
    Re: While loop with bool, same issue August Karlstrom <fusionfile@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 20:11 +0200
      Re: While loop with bool, same issue Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-10-14 14:26 -0400
    Re: While loop with bool, same issue Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-14 20:44 +0100
  Re: While loop with bool, same issue Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-14 10:45 -0700
    Re: While loop with bool, same issue Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-14 13:15 -0700
  Re: While loop with bool, same issue Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-14 11:42 -0700
    Re: While loop with bool, same issue Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2015-10-15 08:20 +0000

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