31 Jan
2012
31 Jan
'12
11:14 p.m.
A friend recently raised an issue with some code I
wrote (a hex dump
routine) saying it depended upon ASCII and thus, would break on
non-ASCII based systems (and proposed a solution, but that's beside
the issue here). I wrote back, saying the code in question was
non-portable to begin with (since it depended upon read() and
write()---it was targetted at Posix based systems) and besides, I've
never encountered a non-ASCII system in the nearly 30 years I've been
using computers.
Do you anticipate having any Chinese users?