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From: kevlin@wslint.demon.co.uk (Kevlin Henney)
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Subject: Re: Bytes and Characters
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In article <38om99$120@hpsystem1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
           schuenem@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE "Ulf Schuenemann" writes:

>
>In article <9430004.4492@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, fjh@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus
> Henderson) writes:
>|> >This would certainly produce a more symmetric type system and avoid the 
>|> >rather ugly "wchar_t" keyword recently added. 
>|> 
>|> If you want to avoid ugly keywords, campaign for it to be called "long
> char".
>
>How/where can I campaign for "long char" ?

I have already written a proposal for this:

	"An alternative wide character type"
	X3J16/94-0120
	WG21/N0507

Lean on one of your national standards committee reps; I have - w/ any luck
he's proposing it :-)

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