That book is well over 30 years old. Unicode was in the planning stages, but definitely not a thing yet. The decisions were "fine" for the time. This makes me f

That book is well over 30 years old. Unicode was in the planning stages, but definitely not a thing yet. The decisions were "fine" for the time. This makes me feel even older, since I taught myself C with that book (and another, platform-specific, Amiga book) back when I was a teenager in the late 80's.