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| <h2 class="chapter">6 Character Set Handling</h2> |
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| <p>Character sets used in the early days of computing had only six, seven, |
| or eight bits for each character: there was never a case where more than |
| eight bits (one byte) were used to represent a single character. The |
| limitations of this approach became more apparent as more people |
| grappled with non-Roman character sets, where not all the characters |
| that make up a language's character set can be represented by 2^8 |
| choices. This chapter shows the functionality that was added to the C |
| library to support multiple character sets. |
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| <li><a accesskey="1" href="Extended-Char-Intro.html#Extended-Char-Intro">Extended Char Intro</a>: Introduction to Extended Characters. |
| <li><a accesskey="2" href="Charset-Function-Overview.html#Charset-Function-Overview">Charset Function Overview</a>: Overview about Character Handling |
| Functions. |
| <li><a accesskey="3" href="Restartable-multibyte-conversion.html#Restartable-multibyte-conversion">Restartable multibyte conversion</a>: Restartable multibyte conversion |
| Functions. |
| <li><a accesskey="4" href="Non_002dreentrant-Conversion.html#Non_002dreentrant-Conversion">Non-reentrant Conversion</a>: Non-reentrant Conversion Function. |
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