Hi Jasen! :-)

 JB> signed is the default for long int and short, why should char be the
 JB> exception?
Well, it's mostly used for storing ASCII characters, and having negative
characters is somewhat odd. ;)

Though even that would not be a real problem for pure ASCII (0-127), so
most of the time it doesn't even make a difference in practice whether char
is signed or unsigned.

Anyway, if your code depends on it being one way or the other, make it
explicit by using "signed char" or "unsigned char".

Ciao
Pascal

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