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Re: 8-bit chars in @""
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Re: 8-bit chars in @""


  • Subject: Re: 8-bit chars in @""
  • From: "Erik M. Buck" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:50:19 -0600

> Why? It works fine. So that's the meat of the question... Why does it work
> when it say it shouldn't? Why shouldn't it just work the same as
NSString's
> unicode support? Why only support 7-bit characters?

I'll take a guess:
Objective-C is a superset of ANSI C and ANSI C only understands 7 bit ASCII.
Strange 8 bit characters may cause the C compiler used for Objective-C to
fail.
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