Peter Kirk scripsit: > If receivers are expected to check for normalisation, they are > presumably expected also to normalise
Not so. An alternative behavior, which is preferred in certain circumstances, is to reject the input, or at least to advise higher layers that the input may be invalid. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --The Hobbit