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echo: c_plusplus
to: WILLIAM MCBRINE
from: JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLARD
date: 1998-02-27 19:58:00
subject: `/a`=?

 JdP>> Borland's C++ compilers *do* support multi-character character 
 JdP>> literals as a language extension.
 WM> No offense to Borland, but... in God's name, why?
For the same reason that most other C++ compiler vendors do: not everyone in 
the world is properly served by an 8-bit character set.
 ¯ JdeBP ®
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