Re: Plea for the support of unicode escape sequences

[David Given <dg@...>]

Xavier Wang wrote:
[...]
> As ISO C Standard specified, the size of char is always 1.

Just to expand (I got very confused by this when working on Clue): the
standard decrees that sizeof() units are all relative to the size of a
char. This means that on some esoteric platforms where chars are bigger
than 8 bits, sizeof(char) will *still* be 1. To figure out how big it
actually is you need CHAR_BIT in <limits.h>.

Plus, sizeof(char) has nothing to do with the machine's address
granularity (which may not be bytes; PICs use 14-bit words each
individually addressable to store their program, for example).

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