At 2002-08-07 03:03, Axel Simon wrote:

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Text encoded with ISO 8859-1 or UTF-8 is octets. If you want to use CChars, you should then subsequently convert the Word8s into CChars. Then I hope there is no C implementation where char is less than 8 bits long.

There may or may not be. Squeezing in octets from ISO 8859-1 encoding is a problem you'll have to deal with either way, and is entirely separate from the text encoding process. -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA