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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:14:15 +1100, Tim Robbins <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au> said:

> to support multibyte encoding: make `ch' in tabify() a rune_t, use
> fgetrune() and fputrune() instead of getchar()/putchar(). Should I make
> this change?

No.  There is a Standard way to do this, which we haven't managed to
implement yet.  I believe the CITRUS project was working on that, but
I haven't heard anything from them in quite a few months now....

-GAWollman


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