Keith, you left this part out:
The point is
that the richtext parser's front-end "get a character"
primitive would get a wide, multioctet character. (The
special '<' character would therefore appear as a 16- or
32-bit quantity with value 60).
This is the part to which I specifically agree, saying:
What do you think you agree with?
A wide character and a multioctet character are different things.
So, the statement:
primitive would get a wide, multioctet character.
is meaningless and should be ignored.
Masataka Ohta