Sure it does scare me. I have to confess UTF-EBCDIC was totally out
of mind. But here I got a hint; Like what perl used to be, CJK
encodings are very, very ASCII-chauvinistic; Its variable-length
encoding heavily relies on the fact that ascii leaves MSB of the byte
alone. That way you can tell if a given byte is a whole (half-width)
character or half of full-width character.
After some thought I think that might be the case: maybe we should just
give up even thinking about supporting the triplet CJK-Unicode-EBCDIC,
I know the combination of just the latter two has brought my poor brain
close to meltdown... summary: maybe we should just skip those two tests.
(And I disclaim any notion that they would be "my" tests :-)
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# It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
