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8-bit Characters

Characters are an 8-bit number signified by the type indicator char. A character's value typically represents a printable symbol using the standard ASCII character code.

Arrays of characters (character strings) are supported, but individual characters are not.



Fred G. Martin
Fri Mar 29 17:44:15 EST 1996