Must sizeof(int) exceed sizeof(char) in hosted environments?

[D. Chadwick Gibbons]

In article <9487 at cbnews.ATT.COM> mark at cblpf.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) writes:
|The obvious reason why you would want big characters (other than tiny
|8 bit machines) is to support eastern character sets, such as the
|Japanese Kanji. 

	Exactly why the indentifier wchar_t was placed into the pANS.  A
small note of this is given in the latter parts of K&R. wchar_t is
implementation defined to be the largest value any particular character set
can within a given locale. 

|By the way, some other character sets (such as Chinese) don't fit in
|16 bits.  Assuming that since int=long that characters will always be
|smaller than int may not be safe.

	Possibly safe, but definately not portable programming.