Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 23:44:16 -0500 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: daniel_sobral@voga.com.br Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wide characters on tcp connections Message-ID: <199801170444.XAA09774@whizzo.TransSys.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:58:36 -0300." <8325658A.005211D4.00@papagaio.voga.com.br> References: <8325658A.005211D4.00@papagaio.voga.com.br>
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TCP doesn't know or care from chararacters or other datatypes; it simply provides you a full-duplex reliable octet stream between two endpoints. You encode your characters, integers, floating point numbers, etc. as you see fit. This is similar to asking if the UNIX filesystem has provisions for storing "wide characters in files"; the FS doesn't care what's inside it's files. louie
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