Re: Fwd: Aspell & international support

[Kevin Atkinson]

Ted Rolle wrote:
> 
> >Don't forget that characters are after all numbers too.
> 
> Um, no they are not.  Not in any sense of the word.  Numbers, you can add.
> Try adding 'a'+'b' and coming up with a meaningful result.
> 

They are stored as numbers and in C and C++ you can even treat them as
numbers.  'a' < 'b' is valid and so is 'a' + 1.  Unicode gives each
character a unique number thus it makes sense to treat unicharacters as
numbers also.

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