draft ANSI standard: are chars signed?

[John Gilmore]

Four or ten people have taken me to task for saying that having "char"
be either signed or unsigned has "broken code".  They are right, it
doesn't break any code.  It just continues to make all such code
nonportable, which is the current state of such code.  Joe Mueller also
points out that the proper way to make such code portable is to add
"signed" and "unsigned" declarations such that you never declare
anything "char" where it matters.

Mea Culpa...
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