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Re: Proposal: _ctype_ table bitwidth change



>>> 0xa0 as Unicode Code Point is not representable as unsigned char
>>> with UTF-8 encoding.
>> [...]
> There is no valid UTF-8 encoding of 0xA0 using a single octet.

Agreed.  Indeed, s/a single octet/other than two octets/.

> Period.  I haven't said anything else.

If that's what you meant, then I just misunderstood you.

This might be a not-too-inaccurate way to put it: I see a distinction
between an octet and a length-1 sequence of octets, just as I see a
distinction between codepoints and encodings of codepoints.

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