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> the issue is "awareness" of the underlying {transport,
> storage} mechansim.

> There's really no point in reimplementing a transport
> protocol given the literally thousands of man-hours of
> work by a lot of clever people over more than a decade
> to make TCP work well.

As far as my question goes, that was not the issue. The issue is the
existance, or not, standards for transporting wide characters over TCP, in
a higher layer.

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Daniel C. Sobral                      (8-DCS)
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