<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">What is a "character" according to POSIX? I suspect it's just a byte, which is a long-outdated definition, the char keyword notwithstanding.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">-rob</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div></div>