On 4 Jun 1999 09:58:51 -0500, Ron Parker wrote:
>No, you should tweak it to work in whatever the current encoding is.  
>Not that there's any distinction, for now, but what if someone adds
>a multibyte encoding later?  Keep in mind that that means the encoding 
>has to be specified first, because it affects parsing, which is not like 
>all the other global_settings.

Doh!  Of course there's a distinction.  A single-byte encoding could
easily contain the first byte of a double- or triple-byte UTF-8 character, 
so you'd have to be sensitive to encoding type even with the current choices.

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